Kuwaiti's first female minister, Maasuma al-Mubarak (L) attends a parliament session with other cabinet members for the first time since her appointment as a minister of planning. Al-Mubarak took the oath in parliament to become the first female member of parliament amid noisy protests by Islamist lawmakers.(AFP)
AFP also notes:
As Mubarak began to read the oath on Monday, a number of Islamist and tribal MPs, opposed to women's political rights, began screaming and banging on their desks.
But she looked unbothered as she continued to read the oath.
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"It's a great victory. It's a glorious victory for Kuwaiti women and a glorious victory for democracy," Mubarak told reporters as she walked through parliament gate.
Kuwaiti women will make their election debut in 2007 legislative elections and will vote in and contest the next municipal polls in 2009, after parliament voted on May 16 to grant them full political rights.
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Women in Parliament! The horror, the horror!
You go girl!
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