ShareKUWAIT: There are intentions to create a quota for leading women in every government ministry and institute, a local daily reported Sunday quoting government sources, adding that there are attempts to implement a mechanism to appoint at a least a woman leader in each state department through a government decision proposal.
"The step will hasten the woman empowering program in government posts and achieve the goals of the development plan by raising women's positions to 35 percent of the state public leading posts," said the sources, adding that one of the solutions to enable women to reach leading posts and reach the said percentage is to set certain numbers of women in leading posts in each government body.
According to the sources, there is many vacant leading posts at the current time which may meet the sought-after percentage for women in leading posts, "especially that the rearrangement of appointment percentages and use of leaders will become smoother and more flexible, bearing in mind appointment of leading women based on competence and skill."
The sources said recommendations will be submitted soon, as the government is responding to efforts to support women's appointment in leading post "as evident in the appointment of four women in the Municipal Council for the first time."
