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Taken from BBC News/World, March 11, 2006:
"Latin America's third directly-elected woman president takes over for a four-year term from Ricardo Lagos. A doctor and a single mother, she was seen as an unusual candidate in a country considered one of the most socially conservative in South America ( Read more... )
"Latin America's third directly-elected woman president takes over for a four-year term from Ricardo Lagos. A doctor and a single mother, she was seen as an unusual candidate in a country considered one of the most socially conservative in South America ( Read more... )
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I caught the tail end of a news update this morning about a teacher who got suspended for making a connection between Hitler and George Bush. Apparently he's back at school now, but they're not sure whether there will be legal action. Personally, I laughed.
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"Six women have been chosen to serve in Stephen Harper's new cabinet, a slight drop from the total in the last Liberal cabinet.
...Martin named 11 women to his 39-member cabinet in 2003 and had nine women among the 37 MPs holding portfolios when his government was defeated, representation rates of 28 per cent and 24 per cent, respectively.
Women make up about 22 per cent of the new 27-member Tory cabinet, which was sworn in at the Governor General's official residence in Ottawa on Monday morning."
Last I checked, women made up more than half of the population.
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