It's official! For the first time in history, a European country has a government with more women than men in power positions.
The new Spanish cabinet, sworn in by the socialist Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, has nine women alongside eight men, including Spain's first woman Defence minister, Carme Chacon, and its youngest-ever cabinet minister, the 31-year-old minister for equality, Bibiana Aido.
We've come a very long way from when women couldnt open up bank accounts, apply for a passport or sign a contract without her husband's permission. I had a look at some statisitics and I was horrified at what I found out. In Spain, women earn about 30 per cent less than men, and take up less than 4 per cent of the places on the boards of the major companies. More than 40 per cent of Spanish mothers of young children work outside the home.
This is the change we need to take those statistics and throw them out the window, equal opportunity is now the way forward! Good Luck Girls, make us proud!
