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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.
This is a list of female United States military generals and flag officers, that are either currently serving in the U.S. Armed Forces, or are retired. They are listed under their respective service branches, which make up the Department of Defense , with the exception of the Coast Guard, which is part of Homeland Security .
Ann Elizabeth Dunwoody (born January 14, 1953) [2] [3] is a retired general of the United States Army.She was the first woman in United States military and uniformed service history to achieve a four-star officer rank, receiving her fourth star on November 14, 2008.
Cathay Williams (September 1844 – 1893) was an American soldier. An African-American woman, she enlisted in the United States Army under the pseudonym William Cathay. Williams became the first female to enlist and the only documented woman to serve in the U.S. Army while posing as a man during the Indian Wars. [1]
Two years later, Carter tapped her for Secretary of Health and Human Services, [a] therefore making her the first woman to hold two different cabinet positions. [3] Madeleine Albright , who was born in Czechoslovakia , became the first foreign-born woman to serve in a president's cabinet when she was picked by President Bill Clinton for United ...
Ann Smith Franklin was the first female newspaper editor in America. [9] 1776 Margaret Corbin was the first woman to assume the role of soldier in the American Revolutionary War and receive a pension for it. [10] 1784 Hannah Adams was the first American woman to become a professional writer. [1] Hannah Slater was the first American woman ...
In 1843-1844, enslaved Lucumí women Carlota and Ferminia, led the slave rebellion of Year of the Lash on Cuba. In 1857–1858, Rani Lakshmibai of Jhansi was one of the leaders of the Indian Rebellion of 1857. Begum Hazrat Mahal also led a band of her supporters in support of Laskhimbai during the revolt. [citation needed]
Her letters remain one of the few surviving primary accounts of female soldiers in the American Civil War. [27] [28] Laura J. Williams was a woman who disguised herself as a man and used the alias Lt. Henry Benford in order to raise and lead a company of Texas Confederates. She and the company participated in the Battle of Shiloh. [29] [30]