Samoa's first female prime minister ignored a taunt about her marital status in defeating the second attempt to oust her in two weeks.

After graduation, she began working as a junior adviser to Helen Clark, the country’s second female prime minister. (New ...

Indira Gandhi, who was born on November 19, 1917, in Allahabad, India, was a revolutionary political figure and the first female Prime Minister of India. Indira Gandhi is still one of the most ...

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Lóa Thórsdóttir said she met the troubled teen, identified as Eirík Ásmundsson by media, while she was working as a ...

According to Namibia’s new Cabinet, key ministries including oil and gas oversight will be directly under the President’s office ...

The rise of women in political leadership has seen remarkable milestones in recent years. While many countries have had female leaders in top government positions, only a few have had both a female ...

Israel lags behind OECD in female political representation, report finds.Israel lags behind OECD in female political representation, report finds. THEN-PRIME MINISTER Golda Meir meets with then-US ...

Defence Minister Kim Campbell won the party’s leadership battle, becoming Canada’s first female prime minister in the process. Ultimately, it was a disaster. The PC’s were reduced to two ...

Punjab, the most populous province with nearly 63 million women, has a female chief minister, yet women occupy only 53 out of ...