The Swiss government has more women in its cabinet than men for the first time in the country's history.

Swiss women have for the first time taken control of the reins of power in an Alpine country that denied any females the vote until 1971.

One Swiss canton, Appenzell Inner-Rhodes, continued to bar women from local elections until 1990, making Switzerland the last European country to introduce universal suffrage.

The four-three majority makes Switzerland only the fourth country in the world to have more women than men in its cabinet. The others are Cape Verde, Finland, and Norway.

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