Women "Heads-of-State"
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Topic: Women "Heads-of-State"
Posted By: morticia
Subject: Women "Heads-of-State"
Date Posted: 12-May-2006 at 00:12
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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 ------------- "Morty Trust in God: She will provide." -- Emmeline Pankhurst |
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Posted By: Mila
Date Posted: 12-May-2006 at 00:20
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There were many more in the medieval era, weren't there?
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Posted By: morticia
Date Posted: 12-May-2006 at 00:26
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! ------------- "Morty Trust in God: She will provide." -- Emmeline Pankhurst |
Posted By: Constantine XI
Date Posted: 12-May-2006 at 00:50
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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 By: Dawn
Date Posted: 12-May-2006 at 01:41
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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. ------------- |
Posted By: Paul
Date Posted: 12-May-2006 at 04:01
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just a technincal point. Prime Ministers aren't heads of state, they're leaders of government. Queens and Presidents are heads of state. ------------- Light blue touch paper and stand well back http://www.maquahuitl.co.uk - http://www.maquahuitl.co.uk http://www.toltecitztli.co.uk - http://www.toltecitztli.co.uk |
Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: 12-May-2006 at 07:21
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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. ------------- |
Posted By: Northman
Date Posted: 12-May-2006 at 09:14
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Dont forget the Queens of Denmark: Margrethe I: 1387-1412 (Establishing the Kalmar Union) ------------- |
Posted By: Maharbbal
Date Posted: 12-May-2006 at 12:51
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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. M. ------------- I am a free donkey! |