Spain’s prime minister plans to bring in a gender quota at the highest levels of government through a law requiring that each sex holds at least 40 per cent of cabinet roles.
The move announced by Socialist leader Pedro Sánchez will make Spain one of the first European countries with a legally binding cabinet quota and forms part of a broader package of gender equality measures.
“If women represent half of society then half of the political power and half of the economic power must belong to women,” Sánchez said on Saturday, where he announced that a draft gender equality law would be approved at a cabinet meeting on Tuesday.
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