Worldwide Guide to Women in Leadership

WOMAN
 PRIME MINISTERS

A list of female chiefs of government of Independent States and Selfruling Territories from the 20th century
Also see
Woman Premier Ministers
Female Heads of Governments prior to the 20th century
Woman Premier Ministers of External Territories

17.12.1917-09.03.1918 (Acting) Evheniya Bohdanivna Bosch, Ukraine
(Also known as Евгения Богдановна Бош, Yevgeniya Bogdanovna Bosh, or Yevheniya Bohdanivna Bosh)

21.07.1960-27.03.1965 Sirimavo Ratwatte Dias Bandaranaike, Sri Lanka
29.05.1970-23.07.1977 
14.11.1994-10.8.2000 

19.01.1966-24.03.1977 Indira Gandhi, India
14.01.1980-31.10.1984 (†) 

17.03.1969-10.04.1974 Golda Meïr, Israel

03.01.1975-07.04.1976 Élisabeth Domitién, Central African Republic

03.05.1979-22.11.1990 Margaret Thatcher, United Kingdom of Great Britain

01.08.1979-3.01.1980 Dr. Maria de Lourdes Ruivo da Silva Pintasilgo, Portugal

21.07.1980-14.06.1995 Dame M. Eugenia Charles, Dominica

04.02.1981-14.10.1981 Gro Harlem Brundtland, Norway
09.05.1986-16.10.1989
30.11.1990-25.10.1996 

15.05.1982-15.05.1986 Milka Planinc, Yugoslavia

02.12.1988-06.08.1990 Benazir Bhutto, Pakistan
19.10.1993-05.11.1996 

17.03.1990-10.01.1991 Kasimiera Prunskienė, Lithuania

20.03.1991-30.03.1996 Begum Khaleda Zia, Bangladesh
01.09.2001-29.10.2006

15.05.1991-02.04.1992 Edith Cresson, France

08.07.1992-26.10.1993 Hanna Suchocka, Poland

10.07.1993-11.02.1994 Sylvie Kinigi, Burundi

25.06.1993-07.03.1996 Tansu Çiller, Turkey

25.06.1993-05.11.1993 Kim Campbell, Canada

18.07.1993-07.05.1994 (†) Agathe Uwilingiymana, Rwanda

16.10.1994-25.01.1995 (Interim) Reneta Ivanova Indzhova, Bulgaria

19.8.1994-14.11.1994 Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga, Sri Lanka

07.11.1995-27.02.1996 Claudette Werleigh, Haïti

23.06.1996-15.7.2001 Sheikh Hasina Wajed, Bangladesh

17.03.1997-22.12.1997 Janet Jagan, Guyana

08.12.1997-10.12.1999 Jenny Shipley, New Zealand

03.05.1999-10/18.05.1999 (Acting) Irena Degutiené, Lithuania
27.10.1999-03.11.1999 (Acting)

22.07.1999-30.07.1999 (Acting) Tuyaa Nyam-Osoryn, Mongolia

10.12.1999- Helen Clark, New Zealand

03.03.2001-04.11.2002 Mame Madior Boye, Sénégal

11.07.2002-31.07.2002 (Acting) Chang Sang, South Korea

03.10.2002-16.07.03 and 23.07.2003-18.09.2004 Maria das Neves Ceita Batista de Sousa, Republic of São Tomé e Príncipe

17.04.2003-24.06.2003 Anneli Jäätteenmäki, Finland

28.06.2003-15.12.2003 Dr. Beatriz Merino Lucero, Peru

17.02.2004- Luísa Días Diogo, Moçambique

12.05.2004-02.06.2004 and 18.11.2004-17.12.2004 (Acting) Radmila Sekerinska, Macedonia

24.01.2005-08.09.2005 Yuliya Tymoshenko, Ukraine  
18.12.2007-

07.06.2005-21.04.2006 Maria do Carmo Silveira, São Tomé e Princípe

22.11.2005- Angela Merkel, Germany

30.03.2006-11.09.2007 Portia Simpson-Miller, Jamaica

19.04.2006-08.03.2007 Han Myung-sook, South Korea

31.03.2008- Zinaida Grecianîi, Moldovia

Last update 31.03.08