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Spain: Women to Hold 11 of 17 Cabinet Posts Under New Prime Minister

HeadlineJun 07, 2018

Spain’s newly appointed Socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez has unveiled his new Cabinet, with women making up 11 of his 17 Cabinet posts. The move makes Spain the country with the highest proportion of women heading government ministries; it contrasts with the male-dominated Cabinet of recently ousted Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy, whose cabinets had at most 36 percent women.

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