Kuwait recently got its first female minister.
Maasuma al-Mubarak, seen here giving the thumbs up during a parliament session, on Tuesday joined other cabinet members for the first time since her appointment as a minister of planning.
The leading women's rights activist and professor of international relations at Kuwait University, was appointed minister of planning and administrative development-- creating history in the country.
Photograph: YASSER AL-ZAYYAT/AFP/Getty Images
