article_snippet: Blatter also hit out at football's continental confederations for failing to elect any women onto governing body's executive committee.
article_snippet: body's executive committee includes three women -- one of whom has voting rights and two of whom are co-opted -- but three women -- one of whom has voting rights and two of whom are co-opted are elected directly by the FIFA congress following a change to the statutes in 2011.
article_snippet: This was hard work because the members of FIFA's executive committee are elected by the national associations... and there was never, never a proposal for a woman to be finally in FIFA," the 78-year-old said at an event in Switzerland.
article_snippet: We had to take the decision, and I did the decision in 2011 at the end of the FIFA congress, [that] We must have at least one woman on body's executive committee.