Ministry of Social Affairs and Gender Equality explained

Ministry of Social Affairs and Gender Equality
Native Name:	Ministerio de Asuntos Sociales e Igualdad de Género
Formed:	1992
Jurisdiction:	Equatorial Guinea
Minister1 Name:	Maria Consuelo Nguema Oyana
Minister1 Pfo:	Minister of Social Affairs and Gender Equality
Parent Agency:	Government of Equatorial Guinea

The Ministry of Social Affairs and Gender Equality (Ministerio de Asuntos Sociales e Igualdad de Género, MINASIG) is a government ministry in Equatorial Guinea.

History

A Secretariat of State for the Advancement of Women was created in 1980 as a ministerial office attached to the Ministry of Labor. In 1992 this became a fully-fledged ministry, the Ministry for the Advancement of Women and Social Affairs, later called the Ministry of Social Affairs and the Status of Women (MINASCOM).^[1] The ministry received its current name in 2013.^[2]

Ministers

Dates in office	Minister	Ministerial title
1994-1996		Minister of Social Affairs and Women.
1996-1999		Minister of Social and Women's Affairs (1996–1998); Minister of Social Affaits and Women's Development (1998–1999).
1999-2006		Minister of Social Affairs and Women's Development (1999–2001); Women's Promotion and Social Affairs (2001–2006).
2006-2012		Minister of Social and Women's Affairs.
2012-2013		Minister of Social and Women's Affairs.
2013-2018		Minister of Social Affairs and Gender Equality.
2018-		Minister of Social Affairs and Gender Equality.

Notes and References

Web site: Mitoha Ondo’o . Ayekaba . The Politics of Gender Parity in Equatorial Guinea: Toward a more Sustained Political and Social Civility in the Twenty First Century . 2009 . 3 . October 13, 2024 .
Web site: Sá . Ana Lúcia . Sanches . Edalina Rodrigues . 2021 . Equatorial Guinea’s Cabinet Dataset (1994-2020) . 10.7910/DVN/YQXJGK . Harvard Dataverse .