List of Women Presidents, Prime Ministers and Heads of State

Sirimavo Bandaranaike, Prime Minister of Sri Lanka - 1960, 1970, 1994

Indira Gandhi, Prime Minister of India - 1966, 1980

Golda Meir, Prime Minister of Israel - 1969

Isabel Peron, President of Argentina - 1974

Elisabeth Domitien, Prime Minister of Central African Republic - 1975

Margaret Thatcher, Prime Minister of Great Britain - 1979

Maria da Lourdes Pintasilgo, Prime Minister of Portugal - 1979

Lidia Gueiler Tejada, Prime Minister of Bolivia - 1979

Dame Eugenia Charles, Prime Minister of Dominica - 1980

Vigdis Finnbogadottir, President of Iceland - 1980

Gro Harlem Brundtland, Prime Minister of Norway - 1981, 1986, 1990

Milka Planinc, Federal Prime Minister of Yugoslavia - 1982

Agatha Barbara, President of Malta - 1982

Maria Liberia-Peters, Prime Minister of Netherlands Antilles - 1984, 1988

Carmen Pereira, Acting President of Guinea Bissau - 1984

Corazon Aquino, President of Philippines - 1986

Benazir Bhutto, Prime Minister of Pakistan - 1988, 1993

Kazimiera Danuta Prunskiene, Prime Minister of Lithuania - 1990

Violeta Barrios de Chamorro, Prime Minister of Nicaragua - 1990

Mary Robinson, President of Ireland - 1990

Ertha Pascal Trouillot, Interim President of Haiti - 1990

Sabine Bergmann-Pohl, President of German Democratic Republic - 1990

Khaleda Zia, Prime Minister of Bangladesh - 1991, 2001

Edith Cresson, Prime Minister of France - 1991

Hanna Suchocka, Prime Minister of Poland - 1992

Kim Campbell, Prime Minister of Canada - 1993

Sylvie Kinigi, Prime Minister of Burundi - 1993

Agathe Uwilingiyimana, Prime Minister of Rwanda - 1993

Susanne Camelia-Romer, Prime Minister of Netherlands Antilles - 1993, 1998

Tansu Ciller, Prime Minister of Turkey - 1993

Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga, President of Sri Lanka - 1994

Reneta Indzhova, Interim Prime Minister of Bulgaria - 1994

Claudette Werleigh, Prime Minister of Haiti - 1995

Sheikh Hasina Wajed, Prime Minister of Bangladesh - 1996

Mary McAleese, President of Ireland - 1997

Pamela Gordon, premier of Bermuda - 1997

Janet Jagan, Prime Minister of Guyana - 1997

Jenny Shipley, Prime Minister of New Zealand - 1997

Ruth Dreifuss, President of Switzerland - 1999

Jennifer M. Smith, Prime Minister of Bermuda - 1998

Nyam-Osoriyn Tuyaa, Acting Prime Minister of Mongolia - 1999

Helen Clark, Prime Minister of New Zealand - 1999

Mireya Moscoso, President of Panama - 1999

Vaira Vike-Freiberga, President of Latvia - 1999

Tarja Halonen, President of Finland - 2000

Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, President of the Philippines - 2001

Mame Madior Boye, Prime Minister of Senegal - 2001

Megawati Sukarnoputri, President of Indonesia - 2001

Maria das Neves, Prime Minster of Sao Tome and Principe - 2002

Beatriz Merino, Prime Minister of Peru - 2003

Luisa Diogo, Prime Minister of Mozambique - 2004

Angela Merkel, Chancellor of Germany - 2005

Yulia Tymoshenko, Prime Minister of Ukraine - 2005

Michelle Bachelet, President of Chile - 2006

Micheline Calmy-Rey, President of Switzerland - 2006

Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, President of Liberia - 2006

Han Myung-sook, Prime Minister of South Korea - 2006

Portia Simpson Miller, Prime Minister of Jamaica - 2006

Pratibha Devisingh Patil, President of India - 2007

Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, President of Argentina - 2007

Borjana Kristo, President of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzogovina - 2007

Zinaida Greceanii, Prime Minister of Moldova, 2008

Dalia Grybauskaite, President of Lithuania, 2009