Liberia: President: Ellen JOHNSON SIRLEAF Philipines: President: Gloria MACAPAGAL-ARROYO India: President: Smt. Pratibha Devisingh Patil
Argentina: President: Cristina Elisabet Fernández de Kirchner
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
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 - will take office December 2007
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Yes, of course! There are many countries with female presidents or female prime ministers.
Yes. Many countries do not have the position of vice-president.
There is a woman president. The president of Argentina is currently a woman, the president of Brazil is a woman, and the last president of Chile was also a woman.
No American President has ever been a woman (as of 2011), but there are a number of other countries which have had women as political leaders, whether as President or as Prime Minister. So far Canada has had exactly one female Prime Minister, whose name is Kim Campbell.
At least 10 countries have a female president (as of Oct 10, 2011)ArgentinaBrazilCosta RicaFinlandIndiaIrelandKosovoKyrgyzstanLiberiaLithuaniaSwitzerland
There is no president of Africa. Africa is a continent, not a country. It consists of many countries. none. There is no president of Africa.
If you are talking about running for President of the United States, there is no law against a woman running. That might not apply to all countries of the world, though.
Yes. Many countries have presidents, as do many corporations and other organizations.
You should if a woman is the best available person for the job. You should not have a woman president just because you have never had a woman president.
Yes, and there have been and are many of them.
Other countries are different. Some countries presidents are really dictators with life time terms
The spelling is president. And which country are you talking about? There are very many countries with presidents.