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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 2025 [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 .
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.
Seema Verma – first Indian-American female administrator of the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services; Sara Gideon - Speaker of the Maine House of Representatives; Suhas Subramanyam - first Indian-American elected to the Virginia General Assembly and former Obama Administration White House official
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
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]
Map shows the parties of the Leader of Opposition in States Legislative Assemblies of India. This is the list of current opposition leaders in the legislative assemblies of the Indian states and union territories: [1]