Women dominate new Swiss cabinet

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Source: BBC

Switzerland's parliament has voted a new minister into the government, giving the cabinet a majority of women for the first time.

The election of Simonetta Sommaruga, a Social Democrat, is a historic step in a country where women only got to vote on a national level in 1971.

Ms Sommaruga becomes the fourth female in the seven-member Federal Council.

They first got to vote at local canton level in 1959, but not at federal level until 1971. The last canton, Appenzell Innerrhoden, finally granted them voting rights in 1990.

Read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-11387996

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2. Here's a little background info on how our goverment works:

http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/0,1518,718573,00.html

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3. thanks for this....

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