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  2. List of elected and appointed female heads of state and ...

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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.

  3. List of female monarchs - Wikipedia

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    3 years [15] Cleopatra VII: Pharaoh Ptolemaic Kingdom: 51 BC 12 August 30 BC 21 years [16] Arsinoe IV: Pharaoh (disputed) Ptolemaic Kingdom: December 48 BC January 47 BC 1 or 2 months [17] Zenobia: Queen Aegyptus: October 270 June 272 1 year and 9 months [18] Shajar al-Durr: Sultan Mamluk Sultanate: 2 May 1250 30 July 1250 3 months

  4. ‘12 Badass Women’ by Huffington Post

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    Victoria Woodhull was the first woman to run for president in the U.S. and she made her historic run in 1872 – before women even had the right to vote! She supported women's suffrage as well as welfare for the poor, and though it was frowned upon at the time, she didn't shy away from being vocal about sexual freedom.

  5. Women in government - Wikipedia

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    In 2013, women accounted for 8 percent of all national leaders and 2 percent of all presidential posts. Furthermore, 75 percent of all female prime ministers and presidents have taken office in the past two decades. [5] Since 1960 to 2015, 108 women have become national leaders in 70 countries, with more being prime ministers than presidents. [16]

  6. List of female United States presidential and vice ...

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    Lydia Maria Child and Lucretia Mott received one vote apiece for president at the 1847 convention of the Liberty League, a caucus of the abolitionist Liberty Party. [1] Mott was a candidate for vice president at the rump Liberty Party's 1848 convention, where she finished fifth out of a field of nine candidates.

  7. List of women who led a revolt or rebellion - Wikipedia

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    Oct. 5, 1789, a young woman struck a marching drum and led The Women's March on Versailles, in a revolt against King Louis XVI of France, storming the palace and signaling the French Revolution. [30] In 1947, Chief Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti led the Abeokuta Women's Union in a revolt that resulted in the abdication of the Egba High King Oba Ademola ...

  8. Women's history - Wikipedia

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    The author revealed the motivation: the book intends to explain how the principle of women being inferior to men evolves; how the abuse to women is intensified over time; and how the misery on women's back experience the history change. The author wants to promote women's liberation by revealing the political and social suppression of women.

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