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| Three leaders of the Federation of Cuban Women (FMC) |
By EFE, Fox News Latino, August 23, 2012
The number of women
serving in government posts increased in the past two years in Cuba, where
females now hold around 45 percent of the seats in parliament, Communist Party
daily Granma said Thursday.
"As a result
of the government strategies for promoting women" seven government bodies,
including the supreme court and the central bank, have filled between 50
percent and 70 percent of their top and essential positions with women.
The ministers of
Food Industry, Finances and Prices, Internal Commerce, Education, Labor,
Science, Justice and Light Industry are all women, as are the heads of the
Water Resources Institute and the Controller-General's Office.
Granma emphasizes
that the Cuban Parliament is the national legislative body with the third
highest percentage of women in the world with 45.2 percent females among its
members, according to figures from last December.
The paper says that
between 2010 and 2011 the number of women heading the Provincial Administration
Councils increased from 21.4 percent to 53 percent, and there was also a 1
percent increase in the number of women on municipal councils.
"In Cuba,
women objectively have the same chances to get into political posts as men, as
long as they have ... the aptitudes and talents," the paper said.
Granma added,
however, that experience suggests that to achieve this "a push is
necessary, ... an explicit intention to overcome the sexist patterns that
govern our reasoning and make a commitment to them."
Last year,
President Raul Castro publicly criticized the "inadequate systematization
and political will to ensure the promotion of women, blacks or people of mixed
race and young people to decision-making posts" on the island.
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