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Halifax artist Jessica Wiebe served eight years in the Canadian Armed Forces as an artillery gunner, often the lone woman in a male-dominated environment.
Women more likely to leave with medical releases, and experience steeper declines in income
Halifax artist Jessica Wiebe served eight years in the Canadian Armed Forces as an artillery gunner, often the lone woman in a male-dominated environment.
Halifax artist Jessica Wiebe served eight years in the Canadian Armed Forces as an artillery gunner, often the lone woman in a male-dominated environment. Now she draws on that experience, and her mental and physical struggles after leaving the military, to create her art.
Maya Eichler, a professor at Mount St. Vincent University in Halifax, says women are the fastest-growing segment of veterans in Canada, but support systems have historically been designed around men.