1893 New Zealand
1902 Australia
1906 Finland (then part of Russia)
1913 Norway
1915 Denmark and Iceland
2. First woman prime minister
1960 Sirimavo Bandaranaike, Sri Lanka
3. First woman president
1974 Isabel PerĂ³n, Argentina
4. First Lesbian leader
2009 Iceland, Johanna Sigurdardottir
First world-leader who is known to be lesbian and who had a same sex marriage while in office.
5. Last European country to give women the right to vote
1984 Liechtenstein
6. Last European area where women get the right to vote
1990 Appenzell-Innerhoden, Switzerland.
Quite surprising that the last area where women got the right to vote was in Switzerland. The canton of Appenzell-Innerhoden was forced to give women the right to vote when some women in Appenzell had filed a suit in the Switzerland Federal Supreme Court against the canton and won the case. In other cantons women had had the right to vote already since the 50-70s.
7. First country to have more female ministers than male
1999 Sweden, 11 women and 9 men
8. Places where women don't have right to vote even now (2015)
Saudi-Arabia
Vatican City
9. Current reigning queens
Denmark, Queen Margethe II
United Kingdom, Queen Elizabeth II
10. Current women world leaders (president, prime minister or chancellor)
The information is from January, 2015.
22 Women leaders
11 Presidents: Liberia, Argentina, Lithuania, Brazil, Kosovo, South Korea, Central African Republic, Chile, Malta, Switzerland
10 Prime ministers: Bangladesh, Trinidad and Tobago, Denmark, Jamaica, Slovenia, Cyprus (North), Senegal, Norway, Latvia, Poland
1 Chancellor: Germany
Famous female leaders:
From first to last the women in the pictures are: Margaret Thatcher, Indira Gandhi, Benazir Bhutto, Angela Merkel, Corazon Aquino, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
Sources:
http://www.guide2womenleaders.com
https://top5ofanything.com/list/9328e019/First-Countries-to-Give-Women-the-Right-to-Vote
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2013/10/27/7-ridiculous-restrictions-on-womens-rights-around-the-world/
http://www.jjmccullough.com/charts_rest_female-leaders.php - female leaders
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_women's_suffrage - timeline of women's suffrage
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