For the first time, a woman will command a UN peacekeeping force
BBC News - Europe
13 May 2014
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-27390072
Woman to lead UN peacekeepers for first time in Cyprus
For the first time, a woman will command a UN peacekeeping force, after Norway's Major General Kristin Lund was appointed to lead troops in Cyprus.
Maj Gen Lund, 55, has a distinguished military career going back 34 years and including postings in Lebanon and Afghanistan, a UN statement said...
... In Cyprus, she will command 996 soldiers and police officers as well as 149 civilian staff...
... She also said she was proud to crack the glass ceiling in UN peacekeeping: "I think it's time, and I think it's important, that other women see that it's possible also in the UN system to get up in the military hierarchy to become a force commander." MORE
