{"id":49980,"date":"2016-12-19T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-12-19T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/49980\/new-lebanese-cabinet-formed-only-one-woman-assigned"},"modified":"2023-08-11T05:56:29","modified_gmt":"2023-08-11T05:56:29","slug":"new-lebanese-cabinet-formed-only-one-woman-assigned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/en\/49980\/new-lebanese-cabinet-formed-only-one-woman-assigned\/","title":{"rendered":"New Lebanese Cabinet Formed, Only One Woman Assigned"},"content":{"rendered":"<big>Same shit, different cabinet. <br \/>  <br \/>  Yesterday a new cabinet was formed under Prime Minister Saad Hariri and in the cabinet of 30 ministers (which is, by the way, an unusually large number of ministers &#8211; the cabinet of the United Kingdom is composed of 21 ministers) only <b>one woman<\/b> was assigned a ministry. To add insult to injury, Jean Ogassapian was named the new Minister of Women\u2019s Affairs.<\/big><br \/>  <br \/>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/49980-250x141.png\" width=\"100%\"><br \/>  Image via Al Jazeera<br \/>  <br \/>  <Big>I\u2019m not suggesting that the minister is unqualified or that a woman should be assigned by default, but are we to believe that in a country that is 53% women, there wasn\u2019t one woman who was capable and qualified? Was there not one of the thousands of women who lead NGOs that fight for women\u2019s rights and rally for gender equality, who was primed for this position?<br \/>  <br \/>  I understand that the Lebanese government has become more or less a bureaucratic game of musical chairs, but why not give a woman a role in advocating for women? <br \/>  <br \/>  As for the one woman who did break through:<br \/>  <br \/>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/49980-1.png\" width=\"100%\"><br \/>  <br \/>  Meet Dr. Enaya Ezzeddine, the owner of a medical laboratory and an AUB Phd recipient. Dr. Ezzeddine is a member of Amal party and is the new Minister of Administrative Development Affairs. <br \/>      <figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"250\" height=\"141\" data-id=\"410611\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/49980-250x141.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-410611\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/49980-250x141.png 250w, https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/49980-600x338.png 600w, https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/49980-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/49980.png 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/figure><\/figure>    ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><big>Same shit, different 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