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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.
Sandra Mason, Barbados (2021–present): The first time that a country's first president was female (Barbados has not had a male president to date). Giorgia Meloni, Italy (2022–present): The first woman to be elected in Italy as Head of government. Claudia Sheinbaum, Mexico (2024–present): The first woman to be elected President.
Category listing the first female national presidents in Europe. In the border regions of the continent there may be instances of transcontinental countries. Pages in category "First women presidents in Europe"
Category listing female national presidents in Europe. In the border regions of the continent there may be instances of transcontinental countries. Subcategories
Zuzana Caputova rose to the Slovak president’s office on a wave of outrage over corruption and her historic win signaled hope for millions of her country-folk. Five years after the 2019 win ...
Vigdís Finnbogadóttir (Icelandic: [ˈvɪɣtis ˈfɪnpɔɣaˌtouʰtɪr̥] ⓘ; born 15 April 1930) is an Icelandic politician who served as the fourth president of Iceland from 1980 to 1996, the first woman to hold the position and the first in the world to be democratically elected president of a country.
She was the country's first female president. Robinson had previously served as a senator in Seanad Éireann from 1969 to 1989, and as a councillor on Dublin Corporation from 1979 to 1983. Although she had been briefly affiliated with the Labour Party during her time as a senator, she became the first independent candidate to win the presidency ...
The Nobel Prize–winning climate scientist made history by being elected the country's first-ever female president. ... Sheinbaum’s parents are both the children of Jews who fled eastern Europe ...