Finland votes to power the world's youngest female prime minister
By MYBRANDBOOK
Sanna Marin of Finland will become the world's youngest prime minister at the age of 34. She was picked by her Social Democratic party after its leader, Antti Rinne, quit as PM.
The transport minister will be sworn in this week and will lead a centre-left coalition with four other parties.
Interestingly, all the parties are headed by women, three of whom are under 35.
Rinne stepped down after losing the confidence of a coalition member over his handling of a postal strike.
Marin will go down in history to be the world's youngest sitting prime minister and the third female prime minister in the Nordic country. While New Zealand PM Jacinda Ardern is 39, Ukrainian premier Oleksiy Honcharuk is 35.
Sanna Marin was raised in a "rainbow family", according to media reports, where she lived in a rented apartment with her mother and her mother's female partner. As a child she felt "invisible" because she was unable to talk openly about her family. But she said her mother had always been supportive and made her believe she could do anything she wanted.
In fact, she was the first person in her family to go to university.
Marin rose quickly through the ranks of the Social Democrats, heading the city administration in Tampere at the age of 27 and becoming an MP in 2015. She has been the transport and communications minister since June and has a 22-month-old daughter.
There are not going to be any major policy changes, as the coalition agreed a programme when it took office. However, Ms Marin, who won the vote for prime minister by a narrow margin, made it clear it would not be business as usual.
In spite of the fact that Finland now has a female prime minister and four party leaders in the ruling coalition are women, gender equality is a big issue in Finland and women in Finnish politics have been bubbling under for a long time.
There have been two female prime ministers this century, though both were short-lived. Women, especially younger women, have always been active in Finnish politics, and in recent years the public has come to expect 40% or more women ministers in its governments.
That changed in 2015, when the relatively male-dominated centre-right government of Juha Sipila took power - only 36% of its ministers were female.
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