Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin on Thursday admitted that there are few women in the upper echelon of the national government, but said that top posts should be distributed with regard to the contenders’ mental and business abilities rather then their sex.
“In neighboring Finland we see that when the government sits at the negotiation table at least half of the negotiators are women. Perhaps, even more than half,” Putin said at Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs’ congress in Moscow.
“It’s regulated by the government there,” the union's chair Alexander Shokhin said.
“I do not know whether we should say in a law how many men and women [should have top posts in the government]. Personal and business qualities should be decisive. But we really lack women [in government]. We will think about this,” Putin responded.
