{"id":1796,"date":"2006-12-29T00:39:35","date_gmt":"2006-12-29T00:39:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/?p=1796"},"modified":"2006-12-29T00:39:35","modified_gmt":"2006-12-29T00:39:35","slug":"over-to-you-mr-blair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/?p=1796","title":{"rendered":"Over to you Mr Blair&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>President-elect Rafael Correa <a href = \"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/16372530\/\">appointed seven women<\/a> to his Cabinet on Wednesday, including Ecuador&#8217;s first female defense minister, saying he wanted to promote gender equality in his South American nation.<br \/>\nIn other appointments to his 17-member Cabinet, Correa named women to head the foreign, health, housing, and social welfare ministries. He said he would keep outgoing President Alfredo Palacio&#8217;s ministers of tourism and the environment, the only women in the current Cabinet.<br \/>\nCorrea, who takes office Jan. 15, said he would &#8220;try to achieve gender equality.&#8221; He acknowledged it was &#8220;something we are not going to reach, but at least we will get close.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Makes the number of British female senior ministers look pretty paltry, doesn&#8217;t it? As a writer on <a href = \"http:\/\/commentisfree.guardian.co.uk\/stella_duffy\/2006\/12\/2007_feminism.html\">Comment is Free<\/a> today noted, women are still notable only for their tiny numbers in so many areas of public life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President-elect Rafael Correa appointed seven women to his Cabinet on Wednesday, including Ecuador&#8217;s first female defense minister, saying he wanted to promote gender equality in his South American nation. In other appointments to his 17-member Cabinet, Correa named women to head the foreign, health, housing, and social welfare ministries. He said he would keep outgoing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-feminism","author-natalieben"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1796\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}