The Chilean President-elect, Michelle Bachelet, has unveiled a cabinet made up of an equal number of women and men, BBC reports Monday.
Ms Bachelet, Chiles first female leader, had made a campaign promise to create an equal opportunity government.
Among the roles to go to women are the defence, economy and health ministries. Her chief-of-staff will also be female.
– This cabinet represents a historic step for equality between men and women,” Ms Bachelet said. She and her cabinet will be sworn in on 11 March.
The 54-year-old became Latin Americas third directly-elected woman president after a convincing poll win earlier this month.
Ms Bachelet said the 10 men and 10 women picked for her cabinet were “people with considerable intellectual, professional and political prestige”.
The new interior minister will be Andres Zaldivar, while Alejandro Foxley will head the foreign ministry and Andres Velasco the finance ministry.
Ms Bachelets nominations kept a balance between the different parties making up the governing centre-left alliance.
The president-elect, who was jailed and briefly tortured by Chiles former military junta, has promised to tackle the South American countrys embedded social divide and build a more equitable and tolerant society, BBC adds.
