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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.
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 ...
Ellen Church was the first female flight attendant in America; she suggested the idea of female nurses on board to Boeing Air Transport, claiming that if people felt safer they would fly more. [86] 1931 Jane Addams was the first American woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize; she shared the prize with Nicholas Murray Butler. [87] [88] 1932
The first continent with a UN member state to have a female leader after WWII was Asia. In 1960, Sri Lanka – known then as Ceylon – elected its first female prime minister, Sirimavo Bandaranaike.
Some female U.S. senators have later run for U.S. president or vice president—see list of female United States presidential and vice presidential candidates. In 2020, Kamala Harris became the first female senator, current or past, to win her vice presidential election bid and become the first female President of the United States Senate.
Please observe that this list is meant to contain only the first woman to hold of a political office, and not all the female holders of that office. The first female governor in North America and the Americas overall was Beatriz de la Cueva —appointed in 1541, when Central America was part of Spain.
Victoria Woodhull was the first woman to run for president in the U.S. and she made her historic run in 1872 – before women even had the right to vote! She supported women's suffrage as well as welfare for the poor, and though it was frowned upon at the time, she didn't shy away from being vocal about sexual freedom.
Recently the 2024 elected president of the United States of America passed a bill, which technically renders every single person in the USA, provided they have matured to be able to sexually reproduce, a woman. This incredible turn of events has enabled the first female president of the USA to be Donald j. Trump herself.