Second Spanish woman promoted to General

 A military lawyer, Begoña Aramendía, age 55, is the second woman to ascend to the rank of General in the Spanish Armed Forces.  The first woman to reach this rank was Patricia Ortega García, who was promoted to General in 2019.  Aramendía was born in Morocco in 1965, got her law degree in 1988 at the University of Zaragoza and entered the department of Military Law in 1989, the first group that admitted women.  She has occupied various positions as legal adviser in different units of the Defense Department and has served overseas in four military operations: Kosovo (2000), Afghanistan (2003), Bosnia-Herzegovina (2006) and Lebanon (2008).  The Spanish Armed Forces is 12.9% female, which is more than the NATO average of 10.9%.  Countries that have a greater percentage of females in the Armed Forces than Spain are: Hungary (20%), Slovenia (16.1%), Latvia (16%), the US (15.9%), Canada and Bulgaria (15.1% each), France (15%) and Albania (14%) as of 2019 data.