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Large and in Charge - Spain's First Majority Female Cabinet

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As the U.S. electorate continues to ask whether it is prepared for a female commander-in-chief, Spain watched its new Defence Minister inspect her troops this week, a maternity blouse doing little to obscure the fact that she is seven months pregnant.

Over the weekend, Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero named the country's first majority female cabinet, with nine of 17 ministries headed by women.

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Last year, Spain introduced a bill requiring certain firms to employ 40 per cent women at top-ranking positions, and Mr. Zapatero has proudly referred to himself as feminist.

"I am very proud to be the Prime Minister who for the first time has made a woman Defence Minister," Mr. Zapatero said after he was sworn in on the weekend. "Moreover, I feel very proud that there are more female ministers than male."

We are so far from this in Canada, it's like another planet!

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