Women are powerful, and they have always been powerful! From Egyptian Queen Hatshepsut in 1482 B.C. to Borjana Kristo, president of the fledgling Bosnia and Herzegovina in 2007, women have determined the destinies of people and nations.
View a chronology of worldwide woman suffrage. (PDF)
Victoria
b. 1819 - d. 1901
Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
1837-1901
Rani (Queen) of Jhansi (India)
Yaa Asantewaa
b. 1840 - d. 1921
Queen Mother of Ejisu (Ghana)
Lili'uokalani
b. 1838- d. 1917
Queen of Hawai'i
1891-1893
Sukhbaataryn Yanjmaa
b. 1893 - d. 1963
President of Mongolia
1953-1954
Song Qingling
b. 1893 - d. 1981
President of China
1968-1972
Juliana
b. 1909 - d. 2004
Queen of the Netherlands
1948-1980
Sirimavo Bandaranaike
b. 1916 - d. 2000
Prime Minister of Ceylon/Sri Lanka
1960-1965, 1970-1977, 1994-2000
Mary Eugenia Charles
b. 1919 - d. 2005
Prime Minister of Dominica
1980-1995
President of Guyana
1997-1999
Lydia Gueiler Tejada
b. 1921
President of Bolivia
1979-1980
Violeta Barrios de Chamorro
b. 1929
President of Nicaragua
1990-1997
Maria de Lourdes Pintasilgo
b. 1930 - d. 2004
Prime Minister of Portugal
1979-1980
Vigdis Finnbogadottir
b. 1930
President of Iceland
1980-1996
President of Ireland
1990-1997
President of India
2007- present
President of Liberia
1996-1997
Kazimera Prunskiene
b. 1943
Prime Minister of Lithuania
1990-1991
President of Finland
2000 - present
Portia Simpson-Miller
b. 1945
Prime Minister of Jamaica
2006 - 2007
Micheline Calmy-Rey
b. 1945
President of Switzerland
2007 - present
Sabine Bergmann-Pohl
b. 1946
President of the German Democratic Republic (East Germany)
1990
Prime Minister of Turkey
1993-1996
Mireya Elisa Moscoso Rodríguez
b. 1946
President of Panama
1999-2004
Prime Minister of Canada
1993
Sheikh Hasina Wajed
b. 1947
Prime Minister of Bangladesh
1996-2001
Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo
b. 1947
President of the Phillipines
2001- present
Prime Minister of New Zealand
1999 - present
President of Ireland
1997- present
Queen of the United Kingdom and other Commonwealth Realms
1952 - present
Prime Minister of Burundi
1993-1994
Prime Minister of New Zealand
1997-1999
Prime Minister of Bulgaria
1994-1995
Cristina Fernández de Kirchner
b. 1953
President of Argentina
2007 - present
President of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzogovina
2007- present
Golda Meir
b. 1898 - d. 1978
Prime Minister of Israel
1969-1974
Queen of Denmark
1972 - present
Elisabeth Domitien
b. 1925 - d. 2005
Prime Minister of the Central African Republic
1975-1976
Margaret Thatcher
b. 1925
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
1979-1990
Queen of the Netherlands
1980 - present
President of the Phillipines
1986-1992
Ertha Pascal-Trouillot
b. 1943
President of Haiti
1990-1991
Prime Minister of Bangladesh
1991-1996, 2001-2006
Prime Minister of France
1991-1992
Agathe Uwilingiyimana
b. 1953- d. 1994
Prime Minister of Rwanda
1993-1994
Chandrika Kumaratunga
b. 1945
President of Sri Lanka
1997-2003
Chancellor of Germany
2005 - present
Prime Minister of South Korea
2006-2007
