成人快手

In a first, 98 women have been sworn in as judges in one of Egypt's main judicial bodies, the State Council. Since its inception in 1946, the State Council has been exclusively male and until now actively rejected female applicants.

Rana Taha is a journalist in Cairo. She explains the historic significance of these new appointments.

"The judiciary is among the fields that women have struggled to break into for years... The State Council was formed in 1946, so imagine 75 years without a single female judge," she tells us.

(Photo: women judges being sworn in to the State Council in Egypt, 19th October 21. Credit: Reuters)