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Jo Jorgensen was the Libertarian nominee for president in 2020. She is the first woman to be nominated for president by that party. Jorgensen's 1.9 million votes represent the second-highest total for a female presidential candidate. Harris was subsequently the 2020 Democratic vice presidential candidate.
The first woman elected president of a country was Vigdís Finnbogadóttir of Iceland, who won the 1980 presidential election as well as three subsequent elections, remaining in office for a total of 16 years, which makes her the longest-serving non-hereditary female head of state in history.
Karen N. Horn became the first woman ever to serve as president of any of the 12 Federal Reserve Banks, and as such the first woman to serve as president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland. [193] Leah Lowenstein was the first woman dean of a co-educational medical school in the United States. [194] 1983
In 2021, Tunisia became the first Arab country to be governed by a woman, when Najla Bouden was appointed prime minister by the country’s president. Margaret Thatcher became Europe’s first ...
Victoria Claflin Woodhull (born Victoria California Claflin; September 23, 1838 – June 9, 1927), later Victoria Woodhull Martin, was an American leader of the women's suffrage movement who ran for president of the United States in the 1872 election.
The Nobel Prize–winning climate scientist made history by being elected the country's first-ever female president. 5 Things to Know About Claudia Sheinbaum, Mexico’s First Female President ...
Robinson became president, the first woman to hold the office, and the first candidate to be second on first preference votes to win the presidency. She became the first Labour Party candidate, the first woman, and the first non-Fianna-Fáil candidate in a contested presidential election to win the presidency.
Women won more than half of Team USA’s medals at the Olympics, only 33 Fortune 500 companies sponsor women's pro sports, and Kamala Harris would be the first female president—but she's talking ...