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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.
Logo of Forbes magazine Angela Merkel has been ranked the most powerful woman 14 times. [1] [2]Since 2004, Forbes, an American business magazine, has published an annual list of its ranking of the 100 most powerful women in the world.
Mujeres en Acción Solidaria (Women in Solidarity Action, MAS) was a Mexican feminist organization active in the early 1970s. It can be seen as the first example of second wave feminism in Mexico . [ 1 ]
Las Mujeres Muralistas ("The Muralist Women") were an all-female Latina artist collective based in the Mission District in San Francisco in the 1970s. They created a number of public murals throughout the San Francisco Bay Area , and are said to [ by whom? ] have sparked the beginning of the female muralist movement in the US and Mexico.
The Famous Five (French: Célèbres cinq), also known as The Valiant Five, [1] and initially as The Alberta Five, were five prominent Canadian suffragists who advocated for women and children: Henrietta Muir Edwards, Nellie McClung, Louise McKinney, Emily Murphy, and Irene Parlby. [2]
Jackeline Fabiola Rodas Valladares, also known as Fabiola Roudha was (born September 6, 1992), is a Guatemalan singer and songwriter who gained international attention by coming in third place on the reality show Codigo Fama Internacional.
The Monument to the Women of World War II is a British national war memorial situated on Whitehall in London next to the Cenotaph at the end of Downing Street.The sculpture represents the wartime contributions of over seven million women, including 650,000 who joined military services.
The absence of women from the canon of Western art has been a subject of inquiry and reconsideration since the early 1970s. Linda Nochlin's influential 1971 essay, "Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?", examined the social and institutional barriers that blocked most women from entering artistic professions throughout history, prompted a new focus on women artists, their art and ...