Autocrats’ push for women in government: Window dressing, or real change?

It was late 2018, and in Ethiopia the government was throwing a rock through one glass ceiling after another. First, in mid-October, the country’s new reformist prime minister, Abiy Ahmed, announced that his cabinet would be 50 percent women – including his ministers of defense, trade, and transport. “Our women ministers will disprove the old adage that women can’t lead,” he told the country’s parliament at the time.

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