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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.
List of female finance ministers; List of the first female members of parliament by country; List of Muslim women heads of state and government; List of the first women heads of state and government in Muslim-majority countries; List of first women mayors (20th century) List of first women mayors (21st century)
This is a list of Hindu members of the United States Congress. As of 2024 [update] , five practicing Hindus have been elected to Congress, the first being Tulsi Gabbard in 2013. As of the 119th Congress , four practicing Hindus currently serve in the United States House of Representatives .
Members of the United States Congress of Indian descent (9 P) Pages in category "American politicians of Indian descent" The following 154 pages are in this category, out of 154 total.
This is a list of political offices which have been held by a woman, with details of the first woman holder of each office. It is ordered by country, by dates of appointment. It is ordered by country, by dates of appointment.
In an effort to increase women's participation in politics in India, a 1993 constitutional amendment mandated a randomly selected third of leadership positions at every level of local government to be reserved for women. [168] These political reservation quotas randomly choose one third of cities to implement a women-only election. [169]
Name Image Term Ethnicity State Party Offices held Kamala Harris (1964–) 2021–present: Indian American: California: Democratic: Harris, who is half Indian American, [8] became the US' first female vice president, the highest-ranking female elected official in U.S. history, and the first African-American and first Asian-American vice president.
Girindra Mukerji, leader of one of the first Indian-American student protests against colonialism in 1908; Kavita Ramdas, president and CEO of Global Fund for Women; Dinesh Sharma, leader, CRO and Director at Steam Works Studio and author in human development, human rights and global education, and professor at Fordham, NYU, and Walden University