Record Number Of Women World Leaders

With the ascension of Ms Julia Gillard as Australian prime minister, a new record-high number of simultaneous female national leaders world-wide, was created, in June 2010.

•In 1997 Mary MacAleese was elected president of Ireland
•Tara Halonen was elected president of Finland in 2000
•Chancellor Angela Merkel was elected chancellor of Germany in 2005
•Liberia elected President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf took office in 2006
•India elected President Pratibha Patil took office in 2007
•Prime Minister Johanna Sigurdardottir was elected in Iceland, by a ruling party
• In 2008 Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Wajed was elected to office in Bangladesh
•Croatia leading party appointed Prime Minister Jadranka Kosor to office
•In 2009 President Dalia Grybauskaite was elected in Lithuania
•Trinidad and Costa Rica elected Kamla Persad Bissessar as prime minister in 2010
•A coup in 2010 put Rosa Otunbayeva as interim president in Kyrgyzstan
•In 2010 the Labour party elected Julia Gillard as Australia’s prime minister.
•In 2010 the leading party appointed Doris Leuthard president of Switzerland
•Costa Ricca elected Laura Chinchilla as president of Costa Ricca in 2010
In July of 2002 13 women were national leaders: Lativa, Finland, New Zealand, Ireland, Sri Lanka, the Philippines, Indonesia, Panama, Bangladesh, Senegal, São Tomé and Príncipe and South Korea.

Once again in early April of 2006 there were thirteen female world leaders, with New Zealand, Ireland, Latvia, Mozambique, the Philippines, Finland, Bangladesh, Liberia, South Korea, Germany, Chile, Sao Tomé and Príncipe and Jamaica.

With Ireland, New Zealand, Latvia, Finland, Philippines, Bangladesh, Mozambique, Germany, Liberia, Chile, Jamaica, Switzerland, and South Korea, all having female national leader, the record was reached for a the third time in January-March 2007.

Female Head of State in June 2010 were:
•Queen Elizabeth II in the United Kingdom
•Queen Margrethe II reigned in Demark
•Queen Beatrix ruled in the Netherlands.

At that time the women Governor Generals included:

•Quentin Bryce as Governor General of Australia.
•Michealle Jean as Governor General of Canada
•Dame Perlette Louisy elected Governor General of St. Luca
•Lady Louise Lake-Tack was Governor General of Antiqua and Barbuda

In 1960 Sri Lanka elected the world's first elected female prime minister, Sirimavo Bandaranaike. Following four decades of political life, she died at the age of 84.

England's Margaret Thatcher was one of the longest serving woman Prime Minister. She remained in office from 1979 to 1990.

By: Lynette Thomas

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