{"id":4358,"date":"2023-08-23T15:13:34","date_gmt":"2023-08-23T08:13:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kamnotra.io\/en\/?p=4358"},"modified":"2023-08-23T15:41:45","modified_gmt":"2023-08-23T08:41:45","slug":"only-15-of-top-ministry-officials-are-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kamnotra.io\/en\/2023\/08\/only-15-of-top-ministry-officials-are-women\/","title":{"rendered":"Only 15% of Top Ministry Officials Are Women"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

An apparently complete list of top-ranked ministry officials in the new government has been released by pro-government media, showing a top-heavy and male-dominated bureaucracy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The set of royal decrees, signed by the king and distributed by Fresh News, contains 1,422 total secretaries and undersecretaries of state in 29 ministries \u2014 an average of 49 per ministry, skewing heavily male. Overall, just 15% of the top ministry officials are women, with Defense at the bottom with 4.7% and all but two ministries below 25%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Combined secretaries and undersecretaries of state per ministry.\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

In what could only be surmised as a tokenistic gesture in a male-dominated bureaucracy, the Women\u2019s Affairs Ministry has 93% senior officials who are women, but are entrusted with the second-lowest budget to tackle Cambodia\u2019s misogynistic society.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The numbers of top-ranked bureaucrats roughly follow the ministries\u2019 budget sizes, though with some outliers: the Education Ministry has the eighth lowest number of secretaries and undersecretaries of state (34) despite having the largest annual budget<\/a> of $895 million.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Information Ministry has the fourth highest number of top-ranked officials (69), despite having the sixth lowest budget of $20 million.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The numbers of secretaries and undersecretaries of state compared to 2023 ministry budgets, in millions of dollars.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Outside the ministries, just one of 29 minister delegates attached to the prime minister is a woman, while only three out of 24 chiefs and deputy chiefs in the prime minister\u2019s cabinet are women.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Among 125 lawmakers, only 16 are women, or 13%, while among 54 cabinet ministers, only three are women \u2014 5.6%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kamnotra is indexing the names of the top government officials, and will be releasing the data and highlighting notable individuals on the Succession 2023 page<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ministry<\/strong><\/td>Secretaries<\/strong><\/td>Undersecretaries<\/strong><\/td>Women<\/strong> (combined)<\/strong><\/td>%<\/strong><\/td><\/tr>
Defense<\/td>44<\/td>42<\/td>4<\/td>4.7%<\/td><\/tr>
Religion<\/td>33<\/td>12<\/td>3<\/td>6.7%<\/td><\/tr>
Transport<\/td>30<\/td>31<\/td>5<\/td>8.2%<\/td><\/tr>
Civil Aviation<\/td>12<\/td>11<\/td>2<\/td>8.7%<\/td><\/tr>
Planning<\/td>23<\/td>21<\/td>4<\/td>9.1%<\/td><\/tr>
Interior<\/td>42<\/td>62<\/td>10<\/td>9.6%<\/td><\/tr>
Agriculture<\/td>25<\/td>35<\/td>6<\/td>10.0%<\/td><\/tr>
Council of Ministers<\/td>54<\/td>35<\/td>9<\/td>10.1%<\/td><\/tr>
Industry<\/td>20<\/td>19<\/td>4<\/td>10.3%<\/td><\/tr>
Finance<\/td>23<\/td>23<\/td>5<\/td>10.9%<\/td><\/tr>
Education<\/td>14<\/td>20<\/td>4<\/td>11.8%<\/td><\/tr>
Rural Development<\/td>32<\/td>26<\/td>7<\/td>12.1%<\/td><\/tr>
Environment<\/td>18<\/td>23<\/td>5<\/td>12.2%<\/td><\/tr>
Water Resources<\/td>11<\/td>13<\/td>3<\/td>12.5%<\/td><\/tr>
Tourism<\/td>26<\/td>16<\/td>6<\/td>14.3%<\/td><\/tr>
Land<\/td>18<\/td>27<\/td>7<\/td>15.6%<\/td><\/tr>
Information<\/td>30<\/td>39<\/td>11<\/td>15.9%<\/td><\/tr>
Telecommunications<\/td>21<\/td>29<\/td>8<\/td>16.0%<\/td><\/tr>
Justice<\/td>16<\/td>14<\/td>5<\/td>16.7%<\/td><\/tr>
Social Affairs<\/td>31<\/td>38<\/td>12<\/td>17.4%<\/td><\/tr>
Mines and Energy<\/td>19<\/td>13<\/td>6<\/td>18.8%<\/td><\/tr>
Civil Services<\/td>22<\/td>29<\/td>10<\/td>19.6%<\/td><\/tr>
Foreign Affairs<\/td>19<\/td>16<\/td>7<\/td>20.0%<\/td><\/tr>
Health<\/td>35<\/td>19<\/td>11<\/td>20.4%<\/td><\/tr>
Culture<\/td>14<\/td>15<\/td>6<\/td>20.7%<\/td><\/tr>
Labor<\/td>32<\/td>23<\/td>12<\/td>21.8%<\/td><\/tr>
Commerce<\/td>36<\/td>17<\/td>13<\/td>24.5%<\/td><\/tr>
National Assembly-Senate Relations<\/td>18<\/td>9<\/td>8<\/td>29.6%<\/td><\/tr>
Women’s Affairs<\/td>15<\/td>12<\/td>25<\/td>92.6%<\/td><\/tr>
Total (29 ministries)<\/strong><\/em><\/td>733<\/strong><\/em><\/td>689<\/strong><\/em><\/td>218<\/strong><\/em><\/td>15.3%<\/strong><\/em><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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