``Barak plans to name only one woman in his government out of 32 posts of minister or deputy minister,'' complained Yael Dayan, a member of parliament from the incoming premier's Labour Party.

``This is a scandal. It violates his campaign promises to bring change and to be the Prime minister of all Israelis,'' Dayan said on Israeli radio.

Barak was due to present the final appointments to his cabinet at a meeting later on Monday of the Labour Party central committee.

Current law limits the size of the cabinet to 18 ministers and six deputy ministers, but Barak has indicated he will seek new legislation allowing him to appoint an additional six ministers.

Barak was scheduled to submit his coalition government to parliament on Wednesday for a vote of confidence and an official swearing-inceremony.

According to Labour Party officials, the only woman offered a cabinet slot was Labour deputy Dalia Itzhik, who was tipped to be minister of either environment or culture and sport.

Barak made no offers to Dayan, a Labour Party veteran and daughter of the late military hero and defence minister Moshe Dayan, either in the cabinet or as head of parliamentary committees, she said.

``On the eve of the year 2000, half the population which voted for Ehud Barak will be represented in government by just one woman,'' Dayan said.

``I hope we are not regressing to a situation comparable to what happens in countries like Pakistan,'' she said.