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Women Appointed to Presidential Cabinets - Produced by the Center for American Women and Politics, Eagleton Institute of Politics from Rutgers University. Retrieved May 4, 2019. Retrieved May 4, 2019.
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.
The first woman to be elected to Congress was Montana's Jeannette Rankin, a Republican, in the 1916 House elections; [2] notably, this occurred before the ratification of the 19th Amendment in 1920, which prohibits the federal government or any state from denying citizens the right to vote on the basis of sex. [3]
Center: Hillary Clinton was the first woman nominated for president by a major political party and the first woman to win the national popular vote in 2016. Top Right: Kamala Harris became the first female vice president in 2020. She became the second woman nominated for president by a major political party, in 2024.
Women in national legislatures (as of 1 September 2022) Country Lower House Upper House Last Election Seats Women % W Last Election Seats* Women % W Rwanda: 2018: 80 49 61.3 2019 26 9 34.6 Cuba: 2018: 586 313 53.4
Here are the most powerful women in politics this year. Rep. Nancy Pelosi Pelosi holds a history-making role in the U.S. government as the first and only woman to serve as speaker of the House.
Despite the new 13th NPC lineup including 742 women out of 2,980 representatives, about 24.9% of the total with a 1.5% increase from the prior term, [160] there is little presence of women in the central power structure of major government organs and their political influence is vastly diminished as they climb up the political ladder.
One-quarter of the U.S. Senate and 28.7% of the House of Representatives seats are held by women, according to Rutgers University's Center for Women in Politics.