--- description: Why the gender parity? "Because it's 2015" title: Here Are All the Women in Justin Trudeau's New Cabinet image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6e7b6ea3a04e2c20/69886fb4524fc03792df5556/canada-liberal-cabinet-justin-trudeau2.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [World](/section/world/) ## World Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Here Are All the Women in Justin Trudeau's New Cabinet by [Daniel White](/author/daniel-white/) ## Daniel White Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Nov 4, 2015 11:48 PM CUT  Newly elected Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau takes a group photo with his Cabinet ministers at Rideau Hall in Ottawa on Nov. 4, 2015 Newly elected Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau takes a group photo with his Cabinet ministers at Rideau Hall in Ottawa on Nov. 4, 2015Chris Roussakis—Xinhua /Landov by [Daniel White](/author/daniel-white/) ## Daniel White Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Nov 4, 2015 11:48 PM CUT Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has chosen to [appoint women to half the positions in his Cabinet](http://time.com/4099679/canada-justin-trudeau-cabinet-women-feminist/ "undefined"). Why did he do it? “Because it’s 2015,” the new PM said, according to [NBC News](http://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/canadian-prime-minister-justin-trudeau-appoint-gender-equal-cabinet-n457146 "undefined"). His female half of the [30 minister Cabinet](http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/nov/04/canada-cabinet-gender-diversity-justin-trudeau "undefined") includes Jane Philpott, the Health Minister; Jody Wilson-Raybould, the Justice Minister and Attorney General; and Catherine McKenna, who was appointed Environment and Climate Change Minister, the network reports. CBC News has a full list of the Cabinet ministers [here](http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/full-list-of-justin-trudeau-s-cabinet-1.3300699 "undefined"). ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4100694/justin-trudeau-cabinet-women-gender-parity/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4100694/justin-trudeau-cabinet-women-gender-parity/"},"headline":"Here Are All the Women in Justin Trudeau's New Cabinet","datePublished":"2015-11-04T23:48:40.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T12:21:13.894Z","description":"Why the gender parity? \"Because it's 2015\"","url":"https://time.com/4100694/justin-trudeau-cabinet-women-gender-parity/","keywords":["Canada","Justin Trudeau"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6e7b6ea3a04e2c20/69886fb4524fc03792df5556/canada-liberal-cabinet-justin-trudeau2.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Daniel White","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/daniel-white/"}],"articleSection":"World","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6e7b6ea3a04e2c20/69886fb4524fc03792df5556/canada-liberal-cabinet-justin-trudeau2.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Canadian Liberal Cabinet","caption":"Canadian Liberal Cabinet","creditText":"Chris Roussakis—Xinhua /Landov","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/world/","name":"World"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4100694/justin-trudeau-cabinet-women-gender-parity/","name":"Here Are All the Women in Justin Trudeau's New Cabinet"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"Know Right Now: Trudeau Sworn in as Canada's Prime Minister","description":"Half of his Cabinet is comprised of women","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/bwKCIlZo/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2015-11-05T09:31:10.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/bwKCIlZo.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/4100694/justin-trudeau-cabinet-women-gender-parity/","duration":"PT1M","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/4100694/justin-trudeau-cabinet-women-gender-parity/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```