List of elected or appointed female heads of government
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Female head of government
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Female head of state/government (combined)
Female head of state and female head of government
This is a list of women who have been elected or appointed as head of government of their respective countries. This list does not include female heads of state, with the exception of leaders of presidential republics.
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Denotes incumbent head of government
- Italics denotes acting head of government
| Name | Image | Country | Office | Mandate start | Mandate end | Term length |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sirimavo Bandaranaike |  |
 Ceylon |
Prime Minister | 21 July 1960 | 27 March 1965 | 4 years, 249 days |
| Indira Gandhi |  |
 India |
Prime Minister | 24 January 1966 | 24 April 1977 | 11 years, 90 days |
| Golda Meir |  |
 Israel |
Prime Minister | 17 March 1969 | 3 June 1974 | 5 years, 78 days |
| Sirimavo Bandaranaike | |
Ceylon |
Prime Minister | 29 May 1970 | 22 May 1972 | 1 year, 359 days |
| Sirimavo Bandaranaike | |
 Sri Lanka |
Prime Minister | 22 May 1972 | 23 July 1977 | 5 years, 62 days |
| Isabel Martínez de Perón |  |
 Argentina |
President | 1 July 1974 | 24 March 1976 | 1 year, 267 days |
| Elisabeth Domitien | |
 Central African Republic |
Prime Minister | 2 January 1975 | 7 April 1976 | 1 year, 96 days |
| Margaret Thatcher |  |
 United Kingdom |
Prime Minister | 4 May 1979 | 28 November 1990 | 11 years, 208 days |
| Maria de Lourdes Pintasilgo | |
 Portugal |
Prime Minister | 1 July 1979 | 3 January 1980 | 0 years, 186 days |
| Lidia Gueiler Tejada | |
 Bolivia |
Acting President | 16 November 1979 | 17 July 1980 | 0 years, 244 days |
| Indira Gandhi | |
India |
Prime Minister | 15 January 1980 | 31 October 1984 | 4 years, 290 days |
| Dame Eugenia Charles |  |
 Dominica |
Prime Minister | 21 July 1980 | 14 June 1995 | 14 years, 328 days |
| Gro Harlem Brundtland |  |
 Norway |
Prime Minister | 4 February 1981 | 14 October 1981 | 0 years, 252 days |
| Maria Lea Pedini-Angelini | |
 San Marino |
Captain Regent | 1 April 1981 | 1 October 1981 | 0 years, 183 days |
| Milka Planinc | |
 Yugoslavia |
Prime Minister | 16 May 1982 | 15 May 1986 | 3 years, 364 days |
| Gloriana Ranocchini | |
San Marino |
Captain Regent | 1 April 1984 | 1 October 1984 | 0 years, 183 days |
| Corazon Aquino |  |
 Philippines |
President | 25 February 1986 | 30 June 1992 | 6 years, 126 days |
| Gro Harlem Brundtland | |
Norway |
Prime Minister | 9 May 1986 | 16 October 1989 | 3 years, 160 days |
| Benazir Bhutto |  |
 Pakistan |
Prime Minister | 2 December 1988 | 6 July 1990 | 1 year, 216 days |
| Gloriana Ranocchini | |
San Marino |
Captain Regent | 1 October 1989 | 1 April 1990 | 0 years, 182 days |
| Ertha Pascal-Trouillot | |
 Haiti |
Acting President | 13 March 1990 | 7 February 1991 | 0 years, 331 days |
| Kazimira Prunskienė |  |
 Lithuania |
Prime Minister | 11 March 1990 | 10 January 1991 | 0 years, 305 days |
| Violeta Chamorro |  Nicaragua |
President | 25 April 1990 | 10 January 1997 | 6 years, 260 days | |
| Gro Harlem Brundtland | |
Norway |
Prime Minister | 3 November 1990 | 25 October 1996 | 5 years, 357 days |
| Khaleda Zia |  |
 Bangladesh |
Prime Minister | 20 March 1991 | 30 March 1996 | 5 years, 10 days |
| Édith Cresson |  |
 France |
Prime Minister | 15 May 1991 | 2 April 1992 | 0 years, 323 days |
| Edda Ceccoli | |
San Marino |
Captain Regent | 1 October 1991 | 1 April 1992 | 0 years, 183 days |
| Hanna Suchocka |  |
 Poland |
Prime Minister | 11 July 1992 | 25 October 1993 | 1 year, 106 days |
| Patricia Busignani | |
San Marino |
Captain Regent | 1 April 1993 | 1 October 1993 | 0 years, 183 days |
| Tansu Çiller | |
 Turkey |
Prime Minister | 13 June 1993 | 6 March 1996 | 2 years, 267 days |
| Kim Campbell |  |
 Canada |
Prime Minister | 25 June 1993 | 4 November 1993 | 0 years, 132 days |
| Sylvie Kinigi | |
 Burundi |
Prime Minister | 10 July 1993 | 27 October 1993 | 0 years, 109 days |
| Agathe Uwilingiyimana | |
 Rwanda |
Prime Minister | 18 July 1993 | 7 April 1994 | 0 years, 263 days |
| Benazir Bhutto | |
Pakistan |
Prime Minister | 19 October 1993 | 5 November 1996 | 3 years, 17 days |
| Sylvie Kinigi | |
Burundi |
Acting President | 27 October 1993 | 7 February 1994 | 0 years, 103 days |
| Reneta Indzhova | |
 Bulgaria |
Acting Prime Minister | 17 October 1994 | 25 January 1995 | 0 years, 100 days |
| Chandrika Kumaratunga |  |
Sri Lanka |
Prime Minister | 19 August 1994 | 14 November 1994 | 0 years, 87 days |
| Sirimavo Bandaranaike | |
Sri Lanka |
Prime Minister | 14 November 1994 | 10 July 2000 | 5 years, 239 days |
| Claudette Werleigh | |
Haiti |
Prime Minister | 7 November 1995 | 27 February 1996 | 0 years, 112 days |
| Hasina Wazed |  |
Bangladesh |
Prime Minister | 23 June 1996 | 15 July 2001 | 5 years, 22 days |
| Ruth Perry | |
 Liberia |
Chairperson of the Council of State | 3 September 1996 | 2 August 1997 | 0 years, 333 days |
| Rosalía Arteaga Serrano |  |
 Ecuador |
Acting President | 9 February 1997 | 11 February 1997 | 0 years, 2 days |
| Janet Jagan |  |
 Guyana |
Prime Minister | 6 March 1997 | 19 December 1997 | 0 years, 288 days |
| Jenny Shipley |  |
 New Zealand |
Prime Minister | 5 December 1997 | 5 December 1999 | 2 years, 0 days |
| Anne Enger | |
Norway |
Acting Prime Minister | 30 August 1998 | 23 September 1998 | 0 years, 24 days |
| Rosa Zafferani | |
San Marino |
Captain Regent | 1 April 1999 | 1 October 1999 | 0 years, 183 days |
| Irena Degutienė |  |
Lithuania |
Acting Prime Minister | 4 May 1999 | 18 May 1999 | 0 years, 14 days |
| Nyam-Osoryn Tuyaa | |
 Mongolia |
Acting Prime Minister | 22 July 1999 | 30 July 1999 | 0 years, 8 days |
| Mireya Moscoso |  |
 Panama |
President | 1 September 1999 | 1 September 2004 | 5 years, 0 days |
| Irena Degutienė | |
Lithuania |
Acting Prime Minister | 27 October 1999 | 3 November 1999 | 0 years, 7 days |
| Helen Clark |  |
New Zealand |
Prime Minister | 5 December 1999 | 19 November 2008 | 8 years, 350 days |
| Maria Domenica Michelotti | |
San Marino |
Captain Regent | 1 April 2000 | 1 October 2000 | 0 years, 183 days |
| Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo |  |
Philippines |
President | 20 January 2001 | 30 June 2010 | 9 years, 161 days |
| Mame Madior Boye | |
 Senegal |
Prime Minister | 3 March 2001 | 4 November 2002 | 1 year, 246 days |
| Megawati Sukarnoputri |  |
 Indonesia |
President | 23 July 2001 | 20 October 2004 | 3 years, 89 days |
| Khaleda Zia | |
Bangladesh |
Prime Minister | 10 October 2001 | 29 October 2006 | 5 years, 19 days |
| Chang Sang | |
 South Korea |
Acting Prime Minister | 11 July 2002 | 31 July 2002 | 0 years, 20 days |
| Maria das Neves | |
 São Tomé and Príncipe |
Prime Minister | 3 October 2002 | 18 September 2004 | 1 year, 351 days |
| Anneli Jäätteenmäki |  |
 Finland |
Prime Minister | 17 April 2003 | 24 June 2003 | 0 years, 68 days |
| Beatriz Merino | |
 Peru |
Prime Minister | 28 June 2003 | 15 December 2003 | 0 years, 170 days |
| Valeria Ciavatta | |
San Marino |
Captain Regent | 1 October 2003 | 1 April 2004 | 0 years, 183 days |
| Luisa Diogo |  |
 Mozambique |
Prime Minister | 17 February 2004 | 16 January 2010 | 5 years, 333 days |
| Radmila Šekerinska |  |
 Macedonia |
Acting Prime Minister | 12 May 2004 | 12 June 2004 | 0 years, 31 days |
| Radmila Šekerinska | |
Macedonia |
Acting Prime Minister | 3 November 2004 | 15 December 2004 | 0 years, 42 days |
| Yulia Tymoshenko |  |
 Ukraine |
Prime Minister | 24 January 2005 | 6 September 2005 | 0 years, 225 days |
| Fausta Morganti | |
San Marino |
Captain Regent | 1 April 2005 | 1 October 2005 | 0 years, 183 days |
| Cynthia Pratt | |
 Bahamas |
Acting Prime Minister | 4 May 2005 | 6 June 2005 | 0 years, 32 days |
| Maria do Carmo Silveira | |
São Tomé and Príncipe |
Prime Minister | 8 June 2005 | 21 April 2006 | 0 years, 317 days |
| Angela Merkel | _(cropped).jpg) |
 Germany |
Chancellor | 22 November 2005 | Incumbent | 7 years, 176 days |
| Ellen Johnson Sirleaf |  |
Liberia |
President | 16 January 2006 | Incumbent | 7 years, 121 days |
| Michelle Bachelet | .jpg) |
 Chile |
President | 11 March 2006 | 11 March 2010 | 4 years, 0 days |
| Portia Simpson-Miller |  |
 Jamaica |
Prime Minister | 30 March 2006 | 11 September 2007 | 1 year, 165 days |
| Han Myeong-sook |  |
South Korea |
Prime Minister | 19 April 2006 | 7 March 2007 | 0 years, 322 days |
| Cristina Fernández de Kirchner |  |
Argentina |
President | 10 December 2007 | Incumbent | 5 years, 158 days |
| Yulia Tymoshenko | |
Ukraine |
Prime Minister | 18 December 2007 | 3 March 2010 | 2 years, 75 days |
| Zinaida Greceanîi |  |
 Moldova |
Prime Minister | 31 March 2008 | 14 September 2009 | 1 year, 167 days |
| Rosa Zafferani | |
San Marino |
Captain Regent | 1 April 2008 | 1 October 2008 | 0 years, 183 days |
| Michèle Pierre-Louis | .jpg) |
Haiti |
Prime Minister | 5 September 2008 | 11 November 2009 | 1 year, 67 days |
| Assunta Meloni | |
San Marino |
Captain Regent | 1 October 2008 | 1 April 2009 | 0 years, 182 days |
| Hasina Wazed | |
Bangladesh |
Prime Minister | 6 January 2009 | Incumbent | 4 years, 131 days |
| Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir |  |
 Iceland |
Prime Minister | 1 February 2009 | Incumbent | 4 years, 105 days |
| Jadranka Kosor |  |
 Croatia |
Prime Minister | 6 July 2009 | 23 December 2011 | 2 years, 170 days |
| Cécile Manorohanta | |
 Madagascar |
Acting Prime Minister | 18 December 2009 | 20 December 2009 | 0 years, 2 days |
| Roza Otunbayeva |  |
 Kyrgyzstan |
President | 7 April 2010 | 17 December 2010 | 0 years, 254 days |
| Laura Chinchilla |  |
 Costa Rica |
President | 8 May 2010 | Incumbent | 3 years, 9 days |
| Kamla Persad-Bissessar |  |
 Trinidad and Tobago |
Prime Minister | 26 May 2010 | Incumbent | 2 years, 356 days |
| Mari Kiviniemi |  |
Finland |
Prime Minister | 22 June 2010 | 22 June 2011 | 1 year, 0 days |
| Julia Gillard |  |
 Australia |
Prime Minister | 24 June 2010 | Incumbent | 2 years, 327 days |
| Iveta Radičová |  |
 Slovakia |
Prime Minister | 8 July 2010 | 4 April 2012 | 1 year, 271 days |
| Dilma Rousseff |  |
 Brazil |
President | 1 January 2011 | Incumbent | 2 years, 136 days |
| Rosario Fernández |  |
Peru |
Prime Minister | 19 March 2011 | 28 July 2011 | 0 years, 131 days |
| Maria Luisa Berti | |
San Marino |
Captain Regent | 1 April 2011 | 1 October 2011 | 0 years, 183 days |
| Cissé Mariam Kaïdama Sidibé | |
 Mali |
Prime Minister | 3 April 2011 | 22 March 2012 | 0 years, 354 days |
| Yingluck Shinawatra |  |
 Thailand |
Prime Minister | 5 August 2011 | Incumbent | 1 year, 285 days |
| Helle Thorning-Schmidt |  |
 Denmark |
Prime Minister | 3 October 2011 | Incumbent | 1 year, 226 days |
| Portia Simpson-Miller | |
Jamaica |
Prime Minister | 5 January 2012 | Incumbent | 1 year, 132 days |
| Adiato Djaló Nandigna | |
 Guinea-Bissau |
Acting Prime Minister | 10 February 2012 | 12 April 2012 | 0 years, 62 days |
| Joyce Banda |  |
 Malawi |
President | 7 April 2012 | Incumbent | 1 year, 40 days |
| Denise Bronzetti | |
San Marino |
Captain Regent | 1 October 2012 | 1 April 2013 | 0 years, 182 days |
| Alenka Bratušek |  |
 Slovenia |
Prime Minister | 20 March 2013 | Incumbent | 0 years, 58 days |
| Antonella Mularoni |  |
San Marino |
Captain Regent | 1 April 2013 | Incumbent | 0 years, 46 days |
Notes [edit]
- ^ including female representatives of heads of state, such as Governors-General and French Representatives of Andorra
See also [edit]
- Council of Women World Leaders
- List of current state leaders by date of assumption of office
- List of elected or appointed female heads of state
- List of elected or appointed female deputy heads of government
- List of the first female holders of political offices
- Women's suffrage
External links [edit]
- Council of Women World Leaders
- Women Prime Ministers (Zárate's Political Collections)
