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She appointed the first woman to serve in the Sri Lankan Cabinet, Siva Obeyesekere, first as First State Secretary for Health and later as Minister of Health. [74] She was feted at the UN World Conference on Women hosted in Mexico City, attending as the only woman prime minister elected in her own right. [ 42 ]
The following is a list of women who have been elected or appointed head of state or government of their respective countries since the interwar period (1918–1939). The first list includes female presidents who are heads of state and may also be heads of government, as well as female heads of government who are not concurrently head of state, such as prime ministers.
As prime minister, she would keep a portrait of Hodgkin at 10 Downing Street. [21] Later in life, she was reportedly prouder of becoming the first prime minister with a science degree than becoming the first female prime minister. [24] While prime minister she attempted to preserve Somerville as a women's college. [25]
Campbell is the first and only female prime minister of Canada. Prior to becoming the final Progressive Conservative (PC) prime minister, she was also the first woman to serve as minister of justice in Canadian history and the first woman to become minister of defence in a NATO member state. [1]
Édith Jeanne Thérèse Cresson (French: [edit kʁɛsɔ̃]; née Campion; born 27 January 1934) is a French politician of the Socialist Party.She served as Prime Minister of France from 1991 to 1992, the first woman to do so and only woman until Élisabeth Borne's appointment in 2022.
ROME (Reuters) -Giorgia Meloni was sworn in as Italy's first woman prime minister on Saturday alongside her cabinet team, giving the country its most right-wing government since World War Two.
Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir, Iceland (2009–2013): As prime minister, she was the world's first openly lesbian world leader, first female world leader to wed a same-sex partner while in office. Elizabeth II , United Kingdom (1952–2022): In 2015, she became the longest-reigning queen regnant and female head of state in world history.
She was the country's first female prime minister, attorney general, and Leader of the Opposition, [8] [9] the first woman to chair the Commonwealth of Nations [10] and the first woman of Indian origin to be a prime minister of a country outside of India and the wider subcontinent. Persad-Bissessar became political leader of the UNC in 2010. [11]