U.S. presidential hopeful Hilary Clinton was asked whether, if elected, she would name a cabinet that would include an equal number of women as men, as did Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in November 2015.
Canadian Press (CP) reports that she suggested she would: “I am going to have a cabinet that looks like America, and 50 per cent of America is women, right?”
Canada not the first to have gender-balanced cabinet
Trudeau made headlines around the world when a reporter asked why it was so important to him to create gender-balanced cabinet and he responded with the comment: “Because it’s 2015.”
However, CP notes Canada was not the first to create gender parity in cabinet: Finland’s is 62 per cent female; Cape Verde’s is 53 per cent; Sweden’s is 52 per cent; and France’s is 50 per cent.
The front-runner for the Republican nomination, Donald Trump has also been asked about the Canadian cabinet, says CP, but he would not commit to following Trudeau’s lead.
(from Canadian Press)
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