List of women leaders of nations
From Condoleezza Rice for President, 2008
[edit] Women who have been elected to lead nations
(Does not include monarchs. In reverse chronological order):
- Michelle Bachelet - first woman president of Chile. (Inauguration is March 11, 2006)
- Dr. Angela Dorothea Merkel - first woman Chancellor of Germany) November, 2005-present
- Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo - first woman Vice-president of the Philipines (1998-2001) and second president of the Philippines (2001-present)
- Helen Clark - second woman Prime Minister of New Zealand and the first to have won office at an election (and in 2005 became the first leader of the NZ Labour Party to win a third successive election) (1999-present)
- Kim Campbell - first woman Prime Minister of Canada (June-Nov., 1993)
- Violeta Chamorro - first woman President of Nicaragua (1990-1996)
- Benazir Bhutto - first woman Prime Minister of Pakistan (1988-1990; 1993-1996). First woman elected to lead a nation of a predominantly Muslim nation.
- Corazon_Aquino - first woman President of the Philippines (1986-1992)
- Vigdís Finnbogadóttir - first woman president of Iceland (1980-1996). She was the world's first elected woman president.
- Margaret Thatcher - first woman Prime Minister of Great Britain (1979-1990)
- Indira Ghandi - first woman Prime Minister of India (1966-1977)
- wikipedia:Mercy Johnson/Mercy Johnson-First Woman President of Liberia and First elected Woman president in Africa
