Update: Spain’s defense minister gives birth
May 21st, 2008 by Holly Fox
In April I blogged about Spanish president Zapatero’s appointment of the visibly pregnant Carme Chacón as his new defense minister. Now she has given birth to a boy. Speculation continues over whether Chacón will take advantage of the full four months maternity leave afforded her, or split the time with her husband, something only possible because of recently passed legislation. This New York Times article explores Chacón’s role in Spain’s new image of equality.
“If you were designing a publicity campaign for equality, you couldn’t come up with a better symbol,” Elena Valenciano, a senior Socialist party official said by telephone. “Sexual equality is Spain’s new brand, and that’s very innovative in a country that only recently admitted equality into its consciousness.”
Sexual equality as a brand? I wonder if that’s how the politicians think about it when they’re passing new, progressive laws.
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