“Algerian women to hold supreme functions”, President says

Taking the floor yesterday on the occasion of Women’s Day celebrations here in Algiers, Algerian president Abdellaziz Bouteflika announced a brand new measure which consists in earmarking quotas for women for the state’s supreme functions, stressing his will to carry on with his policy aimed at appointing women at the top of functions that were, in a recent past, men’s exclusivity.

• The president of the republic enumerated a number of top functions that can be assigned to these women including embassies, courts, universities and public companies.
• In this respect, the president ordered his government’s members to allocate posts for women who express the will to this effect, insisting on the point that the main criterion which differentiates men from women would be competencies and managerial skills.
• The president also ordered the head of the National Committee for the Promotion of Family and woman to create a department in charge of the promotion of women’s work, recalling that the woman is no longer absent from the political scene and her presence obeys to the democratic rule in so far as she represents half of the Algerian population.