LONDON: Ƶ’s “incredibly quick” transformation is seeing women join the workforce at “unimaginable levels,” the UK’s defense minister has said.
Praising the Kingdom as a “strong ally” of Britain at an event on the sidelines of the Conservative Party conference, Grant Shapps lauded societal change in Ƶ, The Times reported on Monday.
“Forget everything you think you know about Ƶ. Actually, the country is changing incredibly quickly,” he said, citing “women in the workplace at levels that would be unimaginable three or four years ago.”
He added: “What you can’t underestimate is the impact that is having on their society and the way they govern.”
Ƶ’s “society is moving very much in a way we have always called for societies around the world to move,” Shapps said.