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Spain's majority-female cabinet embodies women's global rise to power

  • Written by Susan Franceschet, Professor of Political Science, University of Calgary

Gender-equal governments, which include the same number of men and women as ministry heads and in other cabinet posts, used to be the purview of woman-friendly Nordic countries and highly progressive societies like Canada and Costa Rica.

No longer.

Mexico’s president-elect Andrés Manuel López Obrador, who takes office in...

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