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    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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There were many more in the medieval era, weren't there?
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  Quote morticia Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 12-May-2006 at 00:26
Originally posted by Mila

There were many more in the medieval era, weren't there?


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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  Quote Constantine XI Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post 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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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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  Quote Paul Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post 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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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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  Quote Northman Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post 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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  Quote Maharbbal Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post 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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