Nicky Moffat is the highest ranked woman in the British army. She has excelled in all kinds of things during a near 30-year career that might still take her to the very top of the military.
But giving interviews is not one of them. In fact, this is her first – and there are certain things she wants to make absolutely clear.
She is not a “whinger”, and she doesn’t much like people who are. She has not played the “gender card”. Now a brigadier, Moffat, 49, has obviously faced obstacles during her climb up the tree, but she refuses to call them obstacles.
In fact, she prefers not to talk about them at all. “Women do not need to be treated with kid gloves,” she says. “It is very easy for people to attribute a lack of success or failure, or an occurrence, to hang it on to something like gender or colour. I have never really liked that approach.”
But the military is struggling to encourage more women to join, and Moffat, it seems, has recognised that she can play an important role inspiring and mentoring junior female officers.
Moffat has, she says, been quietly fighting for equality in the ranks, though her methods may not have won her the immediate appreciation of her peers.
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