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Topic: Women "Heads-of-State" Posted: 12-May-2006 at 00:12 |
Here's a list of all women who were/are heads of state and who all deserve an honorable mention. I am so proud of all of them for achieving such high goals and for being amazing role models to our young women.
Cleopatra of Egypt - Last Pharaoh of Egypt. Remembered as Queen of the Nile."
Elizabeth I of England Reigned as Queen of England.
Boudicca (Boadicea), Queen of the Iceni tribe.
Catherine the Great of Russia - Ruler of Russia.
Christina of Sweden succeeded her father to the throne of Sweden.
Sirimavo Bandaranaike Prime Minister of Sri Lanka
Indira Ghandi - Prime Minister of India
Golda Meir Prime Minister of Israel
Elizabeth Dominitien Prime Minister of Central African Republic
Margaret Thatcher - Prime Minister of England
Corazon Aquino President of Philippine.
Maria de Lourdes Pintasilgo Prime Minister of Portugal
Mary Eugenia Charles Prime Minister of Dominica
Gro Harlem Brundtland Prime Minister of Norway
Milka Planinc Federal Prime Minister of former Socialist Yugoslavia
Benazir Bhutto Prime Minister of Pakistan
Kazimiera Danute Prunskiene Prime Minister of Lithuania
Khaleda Zia Prime Minister of Bangladesh
Hanna Suchocka Prime Minister of Poland
Kim Campbell Prime Minister of Canada
Tansu Ciller Prime Minister of Turkey
Sylvie Kinigi Prime Minister of Burundi
Agathe Uwilingiyimana Prime Minister of Rwanda
Chandrika Kumaratunga Prime Minister of Sri Lanka
Reneta Indzhova Prime Minister of Bulgaria
Claudette Werleigh Prime Minister of Haiti
Sheikh Hasina Wajed Prime Minister of Bangladesh
Janet Jagon Prime Minister of Guyana
Jenny Shipley Prime Minister of New Zealand
Irena Degutiene Acting Prime Minister of Lithuania
Nyam-Osoriyn Tuyaa Acting Prime Minister of Mongolia
Helen Elizabeth Clark Acting Prime Minister of New Zealand
(succeeded Jenny Shipley and becoming the second consecutive woman Prime Minister)
Mame Madior Boye Prime Minister of Senegal
Chang Sang Acting and ephemeral Prime Minister of South Korea
(was rejected by Parliament on July 31, 2002)
Maria das Neves Ceita Baptista de Sousa - Prime Minister of Sao Tome and Principe
(deposed in 2003 in a military coup.)
Anneli Tuulikki Jaatteenmaki Prime Minister of Finland
Beatriz Merino Lucero Prime Minister of Peru
Luisa Dias Diogo Prime Minister of Mozambique
Radmila Sekerinska Prime Minister of Macedonia
Yuliya Tymoshenko Prime Minister of Ukraine
Maria Do Carmo Silveira Prime Minister of Sao Tome and Principe
Angela Merkel Prime Minister of Germany
Portia Simpson-Miller Prime Minister of Jamaica
Han Myung Sook Prime Minister of South Korea
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_women_heads_of_state
http://www.capwip.org/participation/womenheadofstate.html
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Posted: 12-May-2006 at 00:20 |
There were many more in the medieval era, weren't there?
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Posted: 12-May-2006 at 00:26 |
Originally posted by Mila
There were many more in the medieval era, weren't there?
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None that I could find classified as a "head of state". But if anyone else can come up with more names, that would be great!
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Posted: 12-May-2006 at 00:50 |
For the Medieval era see Irene of Byzantium. She ruled in her own right
after deposing her foolish son. She is remembered for being an
iconodule and for adopted a number of quite disastrous economic
policies to increase her own popularity. She was deposed by the
particians in 802 and died the following year, having been reduced to
spinning to support herself after spending most of her life atop the
wealthiest and most opulent court in Christendom at that time.
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Posted: 12-May-2006 at 01:41 |
Eleanor of Aquitaine - Was the head of the large duchy ,sort of a country at least in the medieval scense. She also ruled as regant in England and signing herself as 'Eleanor, by the grace of God, Queen of England' so she may fill the bill.
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Posted: 12-May-2006 at 04:01 |
just a technincal point. Prime Ministers aren't heads of state, they're leaders of government. Queens and Presidents are heads of state.
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Posted: 12-May-2006 at 07:21 |
You've forgotten Vigdis Finnbogadottir, who was the first woman to be
elected president democratically. In Iceland, if I'm not mistaken in
1980.
The fist "modern" (=non royal) female head of state was in communist Mongolia in the 1940's IIRC.
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Posted: 12-May-2006 at 09:14 |
Dont forget the Queens of Denmark:
Margrethe I: 1387-1412 (Establishing the Kalmar Union) Margrethe II: 1972 -
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Posted: 12-May-2006 at 12:51 |
Hi,
Many many more in European EMH
Isabelle la Catholica
D. Juana the Mad
Catherine I of Russia (1724-1727)
Anna of Russia (1730-1740)
Elizabeth of Russia (1741-1762)
Catherine II (1763-1792)
Maria-Theresa "king of Hungary" (1740-1780 )and archdukess of Austria
Anne of Britany sovereign duckess
Christina of Sweden (1635-1654
Janet of England (9 days in 1553)
Bloody Mary Tudor (1553-1558)
Mary II (1689-1694)
Anne of GB (1702-1714)
of course Victoria
many many more were technically head of state ruling the land while their
male official sovereign was too young, too old, too sick, too occupiedd
with other girls, too far or whatever other good reason you have not to be
a king when you are supposed to be.
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