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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.
(USD from 2019 IMF exchange rate) ... China: 22,000 USD (Party General Secretary and President) 22,000 USD ... President: Prime Minister
The Nordic countries have been at the forefront of championing gender equality and this has been historically shown by substantial increases in women's employment. Between 1965 and 1990, Sweden's employment rate for women in working-age (15–64) went from 52.8% to 81.0%. [71]
The Swedish Ministry of Employment has two ministers as of November 2022. The Minister for Employment and Integration, Johan Pehrson, is head of the Ministry. Paulina Brandberg is Minister for Gender Equality and Deputy Minister for Employment. The ministers also have political advisers on staff who assist them in policy work, providing ...
Israel elected its first female prime minister in 1969 but has never done so again. The United States, on the other hand, has had no female presidents. [18] Sri Lanka was the first nation to possess a female president, Chandrika Kumaratunga (1994–2000), and a female prime minister (Sirimavo Bandaranaike) simultaneously. This also marked the ...
In Southern Asia, Western Asia, and Africa, only 20% of women work at paid non-agricultural jobs. Worldwide, women's rate of paid employment outside of agriculture grew to 41% by 2008. [18] One of the main forms of paid employment for women worldwide is actually a traditional one, that of the market "hawker".
First female minister of cabinet: Karin Kock (s), 1947; First female Acting Prime Minister – Ulla Lindström, 1958; First female Supreme Court Justice – Ingrid Gärde Widemar, 1968; First female leader of a Riksdag party: Karin Söder (c), 1985; First female Speaker of the Riksdag – Ingegerd Troedsson, 1991
Louis De Geer, the architect of the bicameral Riksdag of 1866, which replaced the centuries-old Riksdag of the Estates, became Sweden's first prime minister in 1876. As of 2022, the prime minister of Sweden is Ulf Kristersson, leader of the Moderate Party. The list below contains statistics about the tenures of each of the prime ministers of ...