5. #Norway with two Prime Ministers is number four: Gro Harlem Brundtland (1981, 1986–89, 1990–96), and Erna Solberg (2013–21).

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4. Number three is #NewZealand, with 3 Prime Ministers: Jenny Shipley (1997–99), Helen Clark (1999–2008), and Jacinda Ardern (2017–23).

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#SannaMarin was the latest female PM (2019-23) and also the world’s youngest. Find out more here m.youtube.com/watch?v=WeD_...

3. #Finland is second. With 4 #FemaleLeaders in politics, Finland has had 3 female prime ministers and 1 female president (as of 2024). All served in the 21st century, reflecting Finland’s rapid progress in gender equality.

Karin Keller-Sutter is the current Swiss President and you can learn more about her here www.admin.ch/gov/en/start...

2. #Switzerland leads globally. It has a unique collective executive system, where the Federal Council (#Bundesrat) serves as the head of state & government. Since 1984, 7 women have served as members of the Bundersrat, and each has also held the rotating one-year Swiss presidency.

6. Middle East/North Africa, minimal female representation a handful of leaders, mostly interim. By contrast, male leadership has been globally ubiquitous, with no region ever below ~95% dominance in any decade.

5. Regional "Firsts" and Persistent Gaps. Asia is the region of the early pioneers (Sri Lanka’s PM in 1960) but slower recent growth. Europe & Americas lead in early female leadership (Europe’s 12 female leaders in the 2010s), followed by Africa with 6.

4. From 2000, there was an acceleration. Pre-2000s, female leaders were rare outliers (e.g., only 1 in the 1960s, 12 in the 1980s). Post-2000s, there were 39 in the 2010s, and 26 in the 2020s. (Male leadership remained consistently near-total until the 1990s, with no comparable "surge”)

3. Since 1900s, about 200 women became presidents or PMs. Over the same time period, virtually all were men. Female leadership only became marginally visible post-1960; and, even in the 2020s, women hold just 26 out of 193 UN member state leadership roles (13.5%).

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You can find information about Anchima-Toka here en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khertek...

2. There a two women that can be said to be the First Political Female Leader (non royal)
- Khertek Anchimaa-Toka (Tuvan People’s Republic, former USSR, 1940–44) or
- Sirimavo Bandaranaike (Sri Lanka, 1960–65), the first elected female PM.