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Frances Perkins became the first woman to serve in a president's cabinet when she was appointed Secretary of Labor by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1933. [2] Patricia Roberts Harris was the first African-American woman and the first woman of color to serve in a presidential cabinet when she was named Secretary of Housing and Urban ...
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.
Sixty-eight women have been appointed to positions in the Cabinet of the United Kingdom, with three female Prime Ministers serving in cabinet.Since, by convention, members of the cabinet must be a member of either the House of Commons or House of Lords, [1] the Prime Minister could not appoint women to the cabinet until the Parliament (Qualification of Women) Act 1918 allowed women to stand ...
Pages in category "Women members of the Cabinet of the United States" ... This page was last edited on 20 September 2022, at 06:22 (UTC).
Women will hold 12 of the 22 posts in the new government named Monday by Spain’s recently reelected Socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez. “The new government is going to have a marked ...
Pages in category "Lists of women government ministers by country" The following 19 pages are in this category, out of 19 total. ... List of female cabinet ministers ...
The world's first female cabinet minister in an internationally recognized government was Nina Bang, Danish Minister of Education from 1924 to 1926. Margaret Bondfield was Minister of Labour in the United Kingdom from 1929 to 1931; she was the first female cabinet minister and first female member of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom. [10]
Women government ministers of Jamaica (20 P) ... Women members of the Romanian Cabinet ... Women government ministers by country.