Where Ladies Lead

As seen in data by the Council on Foreign Relations, Europe is generally the region with the highest concentration of female-led and repeatedly female-led nations.

All the countries which have had three or more female leaders (with the exceptions of Trinidad and Tobago, New Zealand and India) are in Europe.

The country which has had the most females at the helm is Switzerland. The country counts five former female presidents of the Swiss Confederation, but has an advantage because the presidents’ terms are limited to one year.


Finland follows with four female prime ministers or presidents, including Sanna Marin, who was premier from 2019 to 2023.


Iceland has counted three female leaders. One of them, Vigdís Finnbogadóttir, was the world’s first female elected president. She stayed in office for 16 years from 1980 to 1996.

Judith Suminwa Tuluka has just become prime minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, making her  the first woman to be head of government in the country and the 17th female head of government or state on the African continent


Comments

7 comments

  1. Those who have thought that way in the past did not end up well, Fast Eddie – Napoleon, the Kaiser, Hitler – be afraid.

  2. Historically a female leadership precedes the collapse of a civilization.

    • Can be true as there’s never a male strong enough to follow them. See M Thatcher, Indira Ghandi, Golda Meir, Kösem Sultan, Elizabeth I and many others.

    • SecretEuroPatentAgentMan

      I guess many Argentinians would agree, they just didn’t mention which civilisation.

      • Argentina once had a fairly effective female leader, at least in actions if not name.

        But afterwards it went back to being a group of military chest-beating men shouting about irrelevancies, no matter what they claimed their politics were.

  3. I think three for the UK is sort of pushing it 🙂

    Two point something maybe ?

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