{"id":277920,"date":"2018-10-17T13:06:00","date_gmt":"2018-10-17T17:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.google.com\/articles\/CAIiEJ_goaP0FAoZ2A1cPvCBejIqFwgEKg8IACoHCAoww5LyAzD2zh0wlq1V?oc=5"},"modified":"2026-09-10T11:36:57","modified_gmt":"2026-09-10T15:36:57","slug":"women-take-half-of-ethiopias-cabinet-posts-in-abiy-ahmeds-2018-reshuffle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/277920","title":{"rendered":"Women take half of Ethiopia\u2019s cabinet posts in Abiy Ahmed\u2019s 2018 reshuffle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In October 2018, Prime Minister <strong>Abiy Ahmed<\/strong> unveiled a cabinet reshuffle in which women were appointed to roughly half of ministerial posts\u2014including key portfolios\u2014drawing global headlines about gender parity in Ethiopian executive power.<\/p>\n<p><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-244316\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/PM-Abiy-Ahmed-unveild-a-new-cabinet.jpg?fit=780%2C423&ssl=1\" alt=\"Women take half of Ethiopia\u2019s cabinet posts in Abiy Ahmed\u2019s 2018 reshuffle\" \/><\/p>\n\n<p>Deutsche Welle and others noted the contrast with previous cabinets and the symbolic appointment of women to defense and other senior roles. Supporters called it a structural break; skeptics asked whether parity in titles would translate into power over budgets, security policy, and party machinery.<\/p>\n<p>The reshuffle remains a reference moment for debates on women\u2019s political leadership in Ethiopia and the Horn\u2014useful when measuring later backsliding or continuity in representation.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/ethiopia-women-take-half-of-ministerial-roles-in-cabinet-reshuffle\/a-45857606\">Deutsche Welle<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unwomen.org\/en\/news\/stories\/2018\/10\/news-ethiopia-gender-parity\">UN Women<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ethiopia: Women take half of ministerial roles in cabinet reshuffle&nbsp;&nbsp;DW (English)Women are set to occupy half of the positions in Ethiopia&#8217;s cabinet, in the latest in a string of reforms introduced by Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed. The newly down&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":244316,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-277920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ethiopian-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/PM-Abiy-Ahmed-unveild-a-new-cabinet.jpg?fit=1082%2C586&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-1aiA","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277920","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=277920"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277920\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":599921,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277920\/revisions\/599921"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/244316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}