Women Presidents, Prime Ministers, Chancellors, and Premiers Since 1950

(President and Prime Minister)

**Please e-mail me if you see that there is anyone missing from the list.

INDIVIDUAL	TITLE	COUNTRY	YEARS ELECTED
Angela Merkel	Chancellor	Federal Republic of Germany	2005
Jennifer M. Smith	Premier	Bermuda	1998
Soong Ching-Ling	Honorary President	Peoples' Republic of China	1981
Suhbaataryn Yanjmaa	President	Mongolia	1953
Maria Estela Martinez de Peron	President	Argentina	1974
Lydia Guelier Tejada	President	Bolivia	1979
Vigdis Finnbogadottir	President	Iceland	1980
Agatha Barbara	President	Malta	1982
Corazon Sumulong Cojuangco Aquino	President	Philippines	1986
Sabine Bergmann-Pohl	President	German Democratic Republic	1990
Ertha Pascal-Trouillot	President	Haiti	1990
Mary Robinson	President	Ireland	1990
Violeta de Barrios Chamorro	President	Nicaragua	1990
Tansu Ciller	President	Turkey	1993
Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga	President	Sri Lanka	1994
Ruth Perry	President	Liberia	1996
Rosalia Arteaga	President	Ecuador (Interim)	1997
Mary McAleese	President	Ireland	1997
Pamela Gordon	President	Bermuda	1997
Janet Jagan	President	Guyana	1997/98
Ruth Dreifuss	President	Switzerland	1998
Vaira Vike-Freiberga	President	Latvia	1999
Mireya Elisa Moscoso de Arias	President	Panama	1999
Tarja Kaarina Halonen	President	Finland	2000
Megawati Sukarnoputri	President	Indonesia	2001
Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo	President	Philippines	2001
Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf	President	Liberia	2005
Michelle Bachelet	President	Chile	2006
Christina Fernandez de Kirchner	President	Argentina	2007
Pratibha Patil	President	India	2007
Dilma Rousseff	President	Brazil	2010
Joyce Banda	President	Malawi	2012
Sirimavo Bandaranaike	Prime Minister	Sri Lanka	1960, 1970, 1994
Indira Gandhi	Prime Minister	India	1966, 1971, 1980
Golda Meir	Prime Minister	Israel	1969
Elisabeth Domitien	Prime Minister	Central African Republic	1975
Lucinda da Costa Gomez-Matheeuws	Prime Minister	Netherlands Antilles	1977
Maria de Lourdes Pintasilgo	Prime Minister	Portugal	1979
Margaret Thatcher	Prime Minister	United Kingdom	1979
Mary Eugenia Charles	Prime Minister	Dominica	1980
Milka Planinc	Prime Minister	Yugoslavia	1982
Maria Liberia-Peters	Prime Minister	Netherlands Antilles	1984, 1988
Gro Harlem Brundtland	Prime Minister	Norway	1986
Benazir Bhutto	Prime Minister	Pakistan	1988
Kazimiera Prunskiene	Prime Minister	Lithuania	1990
**Aung San Suu Kyi	Prime Minister	Burma (Myanmar)	1991
Edith Cresson	Prime Minister	France	1991
Khaleda Ziaur Rahman	Prime Minister	Bangladesh	1991, 2001
Kim Campbell	Prime Minister	Canada	1993
Sylvie Kinigi	Prime Minister	Burundi	1993
Marita Petersen	Prime Minister	Faeroe Islands	1993
Hanna Suchocka	Prime Minister	Poland	1993
Susanne Camelia-Romer	Prime Minister	Netherlands Antilles	1993, 1998
Agatua Uwilingiyimana	Prime Minister	Rwanda	1994
Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga	Prime Minister	Sri Lanka	1994, shortly before assuming presidency
Claudette Werleigh	Prime Minister	Haiti	1995
Shiekh Hasina Wajed	Prime Minister	Bangladesh	1996
Janet Jagan	Prime Minister	Guyana	1997
Jenny Shipley	Prime Minister	New Zealand	1997
Helen Clark	Prime Minister	New Zealand	1999
Mame Madior Boye	Prime Minister	Senegal	2001
Luisa Dias Diogo	Prime Minister	Mozambique	2004
Yulia Tymoshenko	Prime Minister	Ukraine	2005
Portia Simpson-Miller	Prime Minister	Jamaica	2006
Han Myung-Sook	Prime Minister	South Korea	2006
Emily de Jongh-Elhage	Prime Minister	Netherlands Antilles	2006
Michèle Pierre-Louis	Prime Minister	Haiti	2008
Johanna Sigurdardottir	Prime Minister	Iceland	2009
Sheikh Hasina	Prime Minister	Bangladesh	2009
Julia Gillard	Prime Minister	Australia	2010
Kamla Persad-Bissessar	Prime Minister	Trinidad and Tobago	2010
Yingluck Shinawatra	Prime Minister	Thailand	2011
Helle Thorning-Schmidt	Prime Minister	Denmark	2011

**Aun San Suu Kyi, whose mother was ambassador to India and father de facto prime minister of Myanmar (Burma), won election but was denied the office by a military government. Her party won 80% of the seats in a democratic election in 1990, but the military government refused to recognize the results. She was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1991.