Strong presence of women expected in Prodi cabinet

everywhere around the world change is taking place, except in provencial Amurka

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ROME - Italy’s new government under center-left leader Romano Prodi is expected to include a sizable contingent of women ministers, in contrast to the male-dominated political world of his predecessor Silvio Berlusconi.

Prodi has promised that “at least” one in three members of his administration of about two dozen ministers will be women, a large improvement on the two women in Berlusconi’s government.

“There will surely be a strong presence of women” in the Prodi government, said Rina Gagliardi of the Refoundation Communists party, who won a seat in the Senate in last week’s elections. “And that will be a lovely thing.”
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It will be a sea change for Italy, which ranked 45th of 58 countries in a 2005 study on the gender gap by the World Economic Forum. It ranks 22nd in the 25-member European Union for the proportion of women in parliament.

More than 1,500 women vied for the 630 seats at stake in the lower house Chamber of Deputies in last week’s election, compared with 4,769 men, according to the Italian feminist association Arcidonna.

think he had to.

...searching the statute books, trying to find the chapter headed "What To Do If The Leader Won't Leave." Hopefully, the drafters of the Italian constitution considered this possibility.

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