Kuwaiti women win first parliamentary seats
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The Associated Press
Oluşturulma Tarihi: Mayıs 18, 2009 00:00
KUWAIT CITY - Four Kuwaitis have become the first women elected to their nation's parliament, a resounding victory in a conservative Persian Gulf country where the legislature has been men-only for almost half a century.
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One of the women elected, Massouma al-Mubarak, was also the country's first female Cabinet minister. The other female winners were women's rights activist Rola Dashti, education professor Salwa al-Jassar and philosophy professor Aseel al-Awadhi.