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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.
Category listing female national presidents in Africa. In the border regions of the continent there may be instances of transcontinental countries. Subcategories
Although her role is largely ceremonial (with most executive power lying with the prime minister), Sahle-Work's election made her Ethiopia's first female head of state since Empress Zewditu. [8] At the time she was appointed, Sahle-Work was the only female head of state in Africa, [4] and by 2021, she was one of two alongside Samia Suluhu of ...
This is a list of political offices which have been held by a woman, with details of the first woman holder of each office. It is ordered by the countries in Africa and by dates of appointment. 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.
She was the second woman to become the president in the African continent, [5] after Liberia's Ellen Johnson Sirleaf. She was also the country's first female vice-president. [7] In June 2014, Forbes named President Banda as the 40th most powerful woman in the world and the most powerful woman in Africa. [8]
Polly Bergen as Leslie McCloud (Kisses for My President) A female president is played for laughs in this 1964 comedy, when her husband Thad (Fred MacMurray) has to navigate being the president's ...
The announcement of the new leader was postponed until further election investigations were carried out. On 23 November 2005, Sirleaf was declared the winner of the Liberian election and confirmed as the country's next president and the first woman to be elected as president of an African country. [29] Her inauguration took place on 16 January ...
Uma Thurman's President Ellen Claremont in Red, White & Royal Blue joins a long line of fictional female presidents on screen.