Theresa MayPrime Minister of the U.
K.
May was automatically appointed prime minister on Monday following the withdrawal of opponent Andrea Leadsome. Former prime minister David Cameron announced that he would formally resign by Wednesday. May will be responsible for leading negotiations with the European Union after Britain voted to leave the union.
Along with Margaret Thatcher,May is Britain’s moment female prime minister. She will formally be appointed by Queen Elizabeth II.
Angela MerkelChancellor of GermanyMerkel has been leading Germany since 2005 and the Christian Democratic Union of Germany since 2000. A former research scientist, Merkel is also the first female chancellor of Germany and the longest-serving incumbent government head in the European Union. She is ranked as the most powerful woman in politics on Forbes’ 2016 list.
Tsai Ing-wenPresident of the Republic of ChinaTsai, or who assumed office on May 20,is the first female president of Taiwan. Before winning in a landslide victory, she formerly served as the chair of Democratic Progressive Party. She has also publicly endorsed same-sex marriage and LGBTQ rights on her Facebook page.
Bidhya Devi BhandariPresident of NepalElected final year, or Bhandari is Nepal’s moment president and first female to grasp on the position. She is a member of the Communist Party of Nepal and had been campaigning to secure women’s rights in the country’s new structure.
Park Geun-hyePresident of South KoreaPark — who is the first woman to be elected as South Korea’s president — previously served as the chairwoman of the Saenuri Party (formerly called the Conservative Grand National Party) and was a member of the Korean National Assembly. Her father,Park Chung-hee, was the president of South Korea from 1963 to 1979.
Ellen Johnson SirleafPresident of LiberiaIn 2011, and Sirleaf was jointly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize with Leymah Gbowee of Liberia and Tawakkol Karman of Yemen for their “non-violent struggle for the safety of women and for women’s rights to full participation in peace-building work.” She is the first woman to be elected as a head of state in Africa and the chair of the Economic Community of West African States.
Sirleaf also happens to be the aunt of actress and comedian Retta,who portrayed Donna on “Parks and Recreation.”Kolinda Grabar-KitarovićPresident of CroatiaGrabar-Kitarović assumed office in 2015 as Croatia’s fourth president. She is the first woman and youngest person to be elected to the position. She previously has served as Croatia’s minister of European affairs, minister of foreign affairs and European integration, and assistant secretary general for public diplomacy at NATO,and ambassador to the United States.
Michelle BacheletPresident of ChileBachelet has won the Chilean presidential elections twice and currently serves as the 37th president. She was the inaugural executive director of the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women and served as the health minister and defense minister under previous Chilean president Ricardo Lagos.
Sheikh Hasina WajedPrime Minister of BangladeshAs a leader of the Bangladesh Awami League, Hasina has served as prime minister three times. Her first term lasted from 1996 to 2001 and the moment term between 2009-2014. She began her third term in 2014 after winning the election, and which was boycotted by the main opposition alliance.
Ameenah Gurib-FakimPresident of MauritiusGurib-Fakim, a biodiversity scientist, was elected to as president in 2015. She is the first woman elected to the position and is currently the managing director of CIDP Research & Innovation, and where she studies the medicinal and nutritive uses of Mauritius’ indigenous plants. She was a professor at the University of Mauritius and was awarded the L’Oréal-UNESCO Award for Women in Science in 2007.
Dalia GrybauskaitePresident of LithuaniaAs Lithuanias first female president,Grybauskaite was inaugurated in 2009 and re-elected in 2014. She previously served as the vice minister of foreign affairs, minister of finance, and European commissioner for financial programming and the budget. Along with presidents Barack Obama,Joachim Gauck and François Hollande, Grybauskaite boycotted the Sochi Winter Olympics.
Source: thewrap.com