2007-04-18

Whole lotta women

The Finnish media may have turned into the Väyrynen & Kanerva show, but the Associated Press story focuses on the fact that 60 percent of the new ministers are women. It quotes an expert:

"This looks like a world record," said Jaana Kuusipalo, a political scientist at the University of Tampere. "Some governments have been 50-50, but a 60-percent majority of women is internationally very high."
Is it a world record? I can't think of an example of a cabinet with a larger proportion of women. (Can we pretend it's a world record until someone proves otherwise?)

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