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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.
See Category:American women in business, Category:American women in politics. Jewel Freeman Graham (1925–2015), educator, social worker, second black woman to head the YWCA; Zipporah Michelbacher Cohen (1853–1944), American civic leader, president Ladies Hebrew Benevolent Association in Richmond, Virginia
Women Appointed to Presidential Cabinets - Produced by the Center for American Women and Politics, Eagleton Institute of Politics from Rutgers University. Retrieved May 4, 2019. Women Members Who Became Cabinet Members and United States Diplomats - Provided by the U.S. House of Representatives, Office of the Historian. Part of the History, Art ...
The most powerful women in the world — as deemed by Forbes — have been revealed. With the release of their female-specific 2024 Power List, the magazine has crowned 100 women the ultimate ...
This is a list of women pacifists and peace activists by nationality – notable women who are well known for their work in promoting pacifism This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness.
Environmentalist Ellen Swallow Richards was the first woman admitted to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, an impressive feat in and of itself.What's even more admirable was her work in science, a field in which women faced many obstacles, as well as the time she spent getting her Ph.D. in chemistry from MIT– well, almost.
This year marks the 100th anniversary of the passage of the 19th amendment, a major milestone in the fight for gender-based equality. Successive movements — like Womanism, which arose to account ...
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