{"id":9775,"date":"2018-11-18T10:56:00","date_gmt":"2018-11-18T10:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/the-women-smashing-ethiopias-glass-ceiling\/"},"modified":"2018-11-19T12:18:07","modified_gmt":"2018-11-19T12:18:07","slug":"ethiopias-prime-minister-abiy-ahmeds-bringing-the-country-into-the-21st-century","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/ethiopias-prime-minister-abiy-ahmeds-bringing-the-country-into-the-21st-century\/","title":{"rendered":"Ethiopia&#8217;s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed&#8217;s Bringing the Country into the 21st Century"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ethiopia has long been a\u00a0Patriarchal and some would say misogynistic\u00a0country, however recently elected Prime Minister <span style=\"color: #000080;\"><a style=\"color: #000080;\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Abiy_Ahmed\">Abiy Ahmed<\/a>\u00a0<span style=\"color: #000000;\">is changing perceptions via his decision to promote women into some of the government&#8217;s\u00a0top posts. This move has been widely welcomed both locally and Nationally, although it will take time to see any benefit trickle down to the everyday population. Sadly domestic violence remains rife and around 40% of Ethiopian women get married before they reach 18. Access to education and employment is also limited especially in more rural areas where duties such as water collecting tend to be reserved for their gender.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_9809\" style=\"width: 1010px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9809\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9809\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/11\/By-Martchan-edit.jpg\" alt=\"Ethiopian Girls Collecting rain water\" width=\"1000\" height=\"663\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/11\/By-Martchan-edit.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/11\/By-Martchan-edit-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/11\/By-Martchan-edit-768x509.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/11\/By-Martchan-edit-624x414.jpg 624w, https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/11\/By-Martchan-edit-750x497.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-9809\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ethiopian Girls Collecting Rain Water.<br \/>Martchan\/Shutterstock<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The Ethiopian cabinet\u00a0is now comprised 50% of women making it the joint most gender diverse\u00a0in the continent alongside Rwanda.<\/p>\n<p>More about\u00a0Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed <span style=\"color: #000080;\"><a style=\"color: #000080;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-africa-43567007\">Here<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ethiopia has long been a\u00a0Patriarchal and some would say misogynistic\u00a0country, however recently elected Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed\u00a0is changing perceptions via his decision to promote women into some of the government&#8217;s\u00a0top posts. This move has been widely welcomed both locally and Nationally, although it will take time to see any benefit trickle down to the everyday&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9811,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[217,216],"class_list":["post-9775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-worldwide-news","tag-abiy-ahmed","tag-ethiopia"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9775","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9775"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9775\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9810,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9775\/revisions\/9810"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}