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During Bandaranaike's first two terms as prime minister, the country was plagued by high inflation and taxes, a dependence on food imports to feed the populace, high unemployment, and polarisation between the Sinhalese and Tamil populations because of her Sinhalese nationalist policies.
The following is a list of women who have been elected or appointed head of state or government of their respective countries since the interwar period (1918–1939). The first list includes female presidents who are heads of state and may also be heads of government, as well as female heads of government who are not concurrently head of state, such as prime ministers.
She was the country's first female prime minister, attorney general, and Leader of the Opposition, [7] [8] the first woman to chair the Commonwealth of Nations [9] and the first woman of Indian origin to be a prime minister of a country outside of India and the wider subcontinent. Persad-Bissessar became political leader of the UNC in 2010. [10]
Bhutto became the first female prime minister in a Muslim-majority country, [165] as well as Pakistan's second nationally elected prime minister. [166] At 35 years old, [167] she was the youngest elected leader in the Islamic world, [168] the world's youngest prime minister, [169] and the youngest female prime minister ever elected. [170]
Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher, LG, OM, DStJ, PC, FRS, HonFRSC (née Roberts; 13 October 1925 – 8 April 2013) was a British stateswoman and Conservative politician who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990 and Leader of the Conservative Party from 1975 to 1990. She was the longest-serving British prime ...
e. Indira Priyadarshini Gandhi (Hindi: [ˈɪndɪɾɑː ˈɡɑːndʱi] ⓘ; née Indira Nehru; 19 November 1917 – 31 October 1984) was an Indian politician and stateswoman who was Prime Minister of India from 1966 to 1977 and again from 1980 until her assassination in 1984. She was India's first and, to date, only female prime minister, and a ...
Milwaukee State Normal School. Signature. Golda Meir[nb 1] (née Mabovitch; 3 May 1898 – 8 December 1978) was an Israeli politician who served as the fourth prime minister of Israel from 1969 to 1974. She was Israel's first and only female head of government and the first in the Middle East.
Member of the Supreme Soviet– Nadezhda Krupskaya– 1931[519] Member of Presidium of the Supreme Soviet– Nadezhda Krupskayaand Klavdiya Nikolayeva– 1937. First Secretary of the Communist Party – Domina Komarova– 1948 [518] Minister of Health – Maria Kovrigina– 1953.