Friday 3 February 2017
The Swedish government 'responds' to Trump with a photo of women's cabinet
The Swedish government 'responds' to Trump with a photo of women's cabinet
The Deputy Prime Minister signs an environmental proposal surrounded by seven collaborators of the Executive
Stockholm
The vice prime minister of Sweden, Isabella Lövin, hasresponded to the US president. And it has done with a photograph where it appears surrounded by seven women of the cabinet of the Nordic country. This image mimics one of the first released by the White House on Donald Trump, in which he was seen signing an order accompanied only by men .
Lövin has uploaded to his social networks the image in which he is seen, pen in hand and with an open folder, surrounded by collaborators of the Executive - one of them, pregnant. "We are a feminist government, as shownthis picture. It is the observer that corresponds to interpret this picture" said the number two in the government of Sweden.
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| Photograph of the 23 of January in the oval office |
In the photograph of the White House, which generated a wave of criticism, Trump was signing three orders, including one to prohibit funding to NGOs that provide counseling abroad for abortion . Feminist groups criticized that a decision on women was being taken only by men. The image was taken on January 23, after a weekend of mass protests organized by women in all corners of the US and the world .
The project is signing on Lövin, Minister of International Development and Climate, image aims to finish in Sweden with emissions of greenhouse gases for 2045.
A measure that also contrasts with the positions of Trump, who has even put in doubt the harmful effects of climate change . "There is an international demand to find a leader in climate issues. I want to show that Sweden is ready to take that leadership," said the deputy prime minister.
Sweden is a pioneer country in the rights of women, recognized for its high level of female participation in working life. In parliament, the presence of women is 45%, and in the cabinet of Prime Minister Stefan Löfven there is parity between men and women , according to the Government itself.
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