(WOMENSENEWS)–CheersSpanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Zapatero has invited nine female ministers to join his 17-member cabinet during his second term, forming the first female-majority cabinet in the nation’s history. Currently, more than 36 percent of Spain’s lawmakers are women, and party electoral lists must be 40 percent female.”The most unfair domination is that of one half of humanity over the other,” Zapatero told the Earth Times on April 14. “The more equality women will have, the more civilized and tolerant society will be.”In Italy, Silvio Berlusconi was re-elected prime minister on April 16, and said Zapatero’s government was “too pink,” contending that Italy lacked enough qualified women in government to serve at top levels. He pledged to have four female ministers.In Kenya, women cracked the political glass ceiling, with President Mwai Kibaki appointing seven women to his cabinet, a national record. Kibaki promised to reserve 30 percent of all public appointments and elective positions for women, Nairobi’s The Nation reported April 14.Across the world, women now comprise just under 19 percent of members in national legislative bodies, the Geneva-based International Parliamentary Union said in an April 16 report, up from 11 percent in 1975.