10 most successful and influential women politicians to make history

2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55

Most argue that politics is not a woman's business. However, there were enough people in the world who were able to prove that this stereotypical statement is incorrect. And if you do not agree, then below is a list of ten political leaders "in a skirt" who were very famous at one time in such a difficult, and most importantly, non-feminine activity.

1. Benazir Bhutto

Benazir Bhutto is the first Muslim woman to hold the post of Prime Minister of Pakistan twice. She was famous for her leadership, caring for people, and her sophistication. Unfortunately, in December 2007, Benazir was assassinated immediately after leaving the last PPP rally in Rawalpindi two weeks before the planned 2008 general election, in which she was the leading opposition candidate. And the following year, after the tragic event, she was named one of the seven laureates of the UN Human Rights Prize.

2. Park Geun Hye

Park Geun-hye is best known for becoming the first woman in South Korean politics to be elected president. He is also the first female head of state in recent history of Northeast Asia. Prior to her presidency, she was the chairman of the Conservative Grand National Party (GNP). It is also worth noting the fact that Park is considered one of the most influential politicians and most influential personalities in South Korean history.

3. Isabel Martinez de Peron

The former president of Argentina, better known as Isabel Martinez de Peron or Isabel Peron, was famous not only for her political deeds, but also for her controversial life. She was the third wife of former President Juan Perón. During her husband's third presidential term from 1973 to 1974, Martinez served as vice president and first lady, and after his death in 1974, she took the presidency from July 1, 1974 to March 24, 1976. Consequently, she was the first female head of state and head of government in the Western Hemisphere today.

4. Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

24 and the current President of Liberia, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, is one of the founders of the National Patriotic Front of Liberia. She is also known as the first female head of state in Africa to be awarded the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize with Leyma Gbowi from Liberia and Tawakul Karman from Yemen. Women were recognized “For their non-violent struggle for women's safety and for women's rights to participate fully in the work of the world”. And on September 12, 2013, Indian President Pranab Mukherjee presented her with the coveted Indira Gandhi Prize

5. Angela Merkel

The most powerful woman in the world is the backbone of the 27-member European Union and carries on her shoulders the fate of the euro. Angela Merkel is a German politician and former research scientist who has been the Chancellor of Germany since 2005 and the leader of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) since 2000. She is the first woman to hold any of these positions. According to Forbes magazine, in 2012 she was ranked second among the most influential people in the world, with the highest rating ever achieved by a woman, and now she is fifth on that list.

6. Sonya Gandhi

As President of the Indian National Congress, Sonia Gandhi leads the ruling political party of the second most populous in the world. The widow of former Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, who belonged to the Nehru Gandhi family, has a huge influence on people. And it is not surprising that in 2013 Forbes included her in the 21 most influential people, where she safely took the ninth place in the world among the most influential women.

7. Yingluck Chinnawatra

Yinglak Chinnawat is a Thai businesswoman and politician, a member of the Pheu Thai party, the 28th and current Prime Minister of Thailand. She is the first female Prime Minister of Thailand and at forty-five was the youngest Prime Minister of Thailand in the past sixty years. But unfortunately, her political career ended very badly and she had to flee the country.

8. Johanna Sigurdardottir

Johanna Sigurdardottir is Prime Minister of Ireland, who also served as Minister of Social Affairs and Security. In addition, she was the first woman in the world with an openly gay orientation, who, despite her amorous preferences, became the head of government. And in 2009, Forbes included her in the list of the 100 most influential women in the world.

9. Dilma Rousseff

The daughter of Bulgarian businessman Dilma Rousseff is the former 36th President of Brazil Rousseff and the first woman to hold the post. She was previously Chief of Staff to President Luis Inacio Lula da Silva from 2005 to 2010. Dilma became a socialist in her youth and after the 1964 coup d'état she joined various left-wing and Marxist urban guerrilla groups that fought against the military dictatorship. Ultimately, she was captured and imprisoned between 1970 and 1972. But even that did not stop her from being on the list of the most influential women in the world.

10. Golda Meir

Golda Meir was a teacher and politician who was later named the fourth prime minister of Israel. She was elected Prime Minister of Israel on March 17, 1969, after serving as Minister of Labor and Minister of Foreign Affairs. The first woman in Israel and the third in the world to hold such a post was described as the "Iron Lady" of Israeli politics years before the epithet became associated with British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. Former Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion called Meir "the best man in government." She was often portrayed as the strong-willed, outspoken, gray-haired grandmother of the Jewish people, making her another of the most powerful women in the world.

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