Worldwide Guide to Women in Leadership,
UPDATES
20.01.12 Guatemala Ministers
(New government) Guatemala Parliament
(Updates) Japan Ministers (Government
changes)
Female Leaders in The Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg (New
entry)
15.01.12 Marshall Islands Ministers
(New government) Spain Local Leaders (New Government
Delegates to Autonomous Regions) Female
Governors from 2005 (Updates) Female
Presidential Candidates from 2000 (Updates)
06.01.12 Switzerland Ministers
(Eveline Widmer-Sclumpf replaces Micheline Calmy-Rey as President. Calmy-Rey
also left the government and position as Federal Councillor of Foreign
Affairs) Female Presidents (Updates)
Jamaica Ministers (New government with 5 women members (Including
the Premier) and 23 male)
Woman Premier Ministers (Portia
Simpson-Miller takes office as Prime Minister of Jamaica) Czech Republic Ministers
(New Minister of Culture) Morroco Ministers
(New Government with 1 woman and 30 men (The former government had 8
female members) Switzerland
Local Leaders (Updates to the Cantons of Fribourg, Graubünden, Jura,
Luzern, Schaffhausen and Solothurn) Woman
Local Premiers from 1990 (Updates)
Saint Lucia
Parliament (Speaker of the Assembly and the President of the Senate
were replaced by men) United Kingdom Local
Leaders (New Lord Lieutenant in United Kingdom)
01.01.12 Jamaica Ministers
(Portia Simpson Miller Designate Prime Minister)
Woman Premier Ministers (Updates)
European Union (Danish Prime Minister,
Helle Thorning-Schmidt, heads the rotating presidency)
Iceland Ministers (Government changes)
Female Finance Ministers from 2000
(Icelandic Finance Minister)
Argentina Parliament (Provisorial President of the Senate)
Female Presidents of Parliaments from 2000
(Updates)
26.12.11 Tunisia Ministers
(New government with 3 women and 38 male ministers)
Croatia Ministers (New government)
Woman Premier Ministers (Jadranka
Kosor leaves office as Croat Premier)
Female Foreign Ministers (Vesna
Pusic is Croat Forign Minister) Female Finance Ministers from 2000
(Croat Finance Minister leaves office)
Croatia Parliament (Updates)
Kyrgyzstan Ministers (New government)
Woman Vice Premiers from 2000
(Kyrgyz Vice-Premier) Spain Parliament
(Updates)
21.12.11 Spain Ministers (New government with
4 women and 10 male ministers) Woman
Vice Premiers from 2000 (New Spanish Vice-Premier)
Female Foreign Ministers (Spanish
Minister since 2010 replaced by a man)
Female Defence Ministers Spanish
Minister since 2008 replaced by a man)
Female Finance Ministers from 2000
Spanish Minister since 2009 replaced by a man)
Spain Local Leaders (New Mayor of Madrid)
Women Bishops (New German Lutheran Bishop)
18.12.11 Switzerland
Ministers (Updates) Female Presidents
(Eveline
Widmer-Sclumpf Swiss president for 2012)
Switzerland Parliament
(Updates) Switzerland Parties
(Updates) New Zealand Ministers
(Government changes) Netherlands Ministers
(Government change) Female Ministers
of Interior, Home Affairs, Security, Civil Defence and Police
(Updates)
12.12.11 Gibraltar (New
government) Yemen Ministers (Government
changes) Cameroon Ministers (Government
changes) Argentina Local Leaders
(New governor) Female Governors from 2005
(updates)
08.12.11 Saint Lucia Ministers
(New Government) Egypt Ministers (Government
changes)
06.12.11 Female Presidents
(Rosa
Otunbayeva leaves office as
President of Kyrgyzstan)
Jordan Ministers (Government changes) Guyana
Ministers (Government changes) Belgium
Ministers (New government with only 25% women)
29.11.11 Guyana Parties
(Death of Party Leader and former Prime Ministerial candidate)
South Ossetia (Alla
Dzhioyeva wins presidential election which is subsequently annulled)
Female Presidential Candidates from 2000
(Updates) Slovakia Ministers (Prime
Minister
Iveta Radičová takes over post of Defence
Minister) Female Defence Ministers
(Update)
27.11.11 Libya Ministers
(New government) Faero Islands Ministers
(Nev government) Faeroes Islands Parties
(Updates) Woman Vice Premiers from 2000
(Vice-Premier of the Faeroes) Isle of Man Ministers
(Updates)
22.11.11 Åland Ministers
(New government, and
Camilla Gunell replaces Viveca Eriksson as Lantråd
or Premier) Woman Heads of State and
Government (Update with the developments in Åland)
Åland Parliament (Britt Lundberg is
Speaker of the Lagting) Female
Presidents of Parliaments from 2000
(Update with the developments in Åland)
Madagascar Ministers (Government changes)
Female Foreign Ministers (Madagasque
Foreign Minister replaced)
Australia Local Leaders (First female
Administrator of the Northern Territory)
Female Governors from 2005 (Update)
16.11.11 Poland Parliament
(Marshal of the Sejm) Female Presidents of Parliaments from 2000
(Polish Underhouse Chair) Norway Ministers
(Government changes) Italy Ministers (New
Government) Female Ministers of
Interior, Home Affairs, Security, Civil Defence and Police (Nowegian
and Italian Ministers)
Bulgaria Ministers (Designate Vice-President)
Guatemala Ministers (Designate Vice-President)
Female
Vice-presidents (Designate Vice-Presidents)
11.11.11
Female Presidents
(Mary McAleese leaves office as President of Ireland)
British Virgin Islands Ministers
(New government without women) Burundi Ministers
(Government Changes) Female Finance Ministers from 2000
(Burundian Finance Minister (see 2007))
Poland Parliament (Updates)
Poland Local Leaders (Updates)
Female Governors from 2005 (Updates on
Polish Governors)
01.11.2011 Latvia Ministers
(Government changes) Jamaica Ministers
(Government changes)
23.10.11 Åland Ministers
(Designate Candidate Premier)
Woman Premier Ministers of
External Territories (Camilla Gunell Designated as Lantråd
of the Åland Islands) Indonsia Ministers
(Government changes)
20.10.2011 United Kingdom Ministers
(Government changes) Female Finance Ministers from 2000
(Change of Economic Secretaries) Haiti Ministers
(New Government)
Female Foreign Ministers (Haitian Foreign Minister since 2009 leaves
office) Swaziland Ministers
(Government changes)
14.10.11 Belgium
Parliament (New Senate President)
Female Presidents of Parliaments from 2000
(Belgian Senate President) Belgium
Parties (Updates) Danish Party
Leaders (Updates)
10.10.11 Canada
Local Leaders (New Premier of Alberta)
Woman Local Premiers from 1990 (Alison
Redford, Premier of Alberta)
06.10.11 Denmark List of Female Party
Leaders (Updates to the Deputy Party Leadership-positions)
Danish Party Leaders (Updates to Party
Leaders)
03.10.11 List of Danish
Female Ministers (New government with 9 women and 12 men (39 %))
Woman Premier Ministers (Helle
Thorning-Schmidt takes office as Prime Minister)
Female Finance Ministers from 2000
(Danish Minister of Economy) Danish Female
Parliament Vice-Chairmen (New Vice-Chairperson of the Folketing)
Denmark Parliament (Vice-Chair and
Secretaries) Sweden Ministers (Government
changes) Bolivia Ministers (Defence
Minister resigns) Female Defence
Ministers (María Cecilia Chacón resigned as Bolivian Defence
Minister after 5 months in office)
28.09.11 Denmark List of Female Party
Leaders (New Political Spokesperson of the Conservative Party) Russia Parliament
(Valentina
Matviyenko is new Chairperson of the Federation Council)
Female Presidents of Parliaments from 2000
(Updates) Russia Heads (Valentina Ivanovna
Matviyenko is also Second Deputy Head of State)
Female Presidents of Unterstate
Entities (Added new information many new photos)
25.09.11 Sweden
Local Leaders (Acting Governor of the County of Stockholm)
Female Governors from 2005 (Updates)
Sweden Parties (New leader of the
centre party and other updates) Israel
Parties (New leader of the Labour Party)
20.09.11 Denmark List of Female Party Leaders
(Updates) Danish Party Leaders
(Updates) Nevis Parliament (New
Assembly President) Female Presidents
of Parliaments from 2000 (Nevis Presidents in 2001 and 2011) Costa Rica Ministers
(Government changes) Cuba Ministers
(Government changes)
Dominican Republic Ministers (Government changes)
Cuba Local (New Regional Presidents)
16.09.11 Denmark Ministers
(Helle Thorning-Schmidt and her coalition partners win the election and
she is becomes the designate Prime Minister)
Woman Premier Ministers (Designate
Danish Prime Minister) Female
Presidential Candidates from 2000 (Updates)
09.09.11 Japan Ministers
(Government changes)
Malawi Ministers (Government changes)
Female Foreign Ministers (Malawi
Foreign Minister)
05.09.11 Christmas Island
(Acting Administator) Cocos [Keelings] Islands
(Acting Administator) British
Indian Ocean Territory (Acting Administator)
Female
Governors of External Territories (Updates)
Argentina Local Leaders (New Governor)
Ecuador Local
Leaders (New Governor) Congo-Kinshasa
Local Leaders (New Governor) Liberia Local Leaders
(New Governor) Female Governors 2000-2005
(New Governor)
Female Governors from 2005
(New Governor)
Uganda Substates (Regents of
traditional states)
Women in power from 2000 (See 2010)
Woman Vice Presidential
Candidates from 2000 (Updates)
1.09.11 New Zealand
Heads of State (Acting Governor General)
Female Governors General (Ditto -
see 2001) Jamaica Parliament
(New Speaker) Jamaica Ministers (Goverment
change) United Kingdom Parliament
(New Lord Speaker) Female
Presidents of Parliaments from 2000 (Various updates)
Kenya Ministers (Government change)
Southern
Sudan Ministers (Government changes) Isle of
Man Ministers (Updates) Female Finance Ministers from 2000
(Various updates) Russian
Local Leaders (Governor of St. Petersburg resigned)
Female Governors 2000-2005 (See 2003)
22,08.11 Vietnam Ministers
(Government changes) Libya Ministers (Interim
National Council Member)
18.08.11 Nigeria Ministers
(Finance Mininster 2003-06 reappointed to the post)
Female Finance Ministers from 2000
(Ditto) Chad Ministers (Government changes)
Vietnam Parliament (Update)
11.08.11 Papua New Guinea Ministers
(New government without women) Thailand
Ministers (New government) USA Cabinet
(Update) Germany
Local Leaders (New Minister President of Saarland)
Woman Local Premiers from 1990 (Annegret
Kramp-Karrenbauer is Premier of Saarland) Ghana Parties
(Updates)
08.08.11 Mauritius
Ministers (Government changes)
Israel Parliament (Updates)
05.08.11 Thailand
Ministers (Yingluck Shinawatra is elected Prime
Minister) Woman Premier
Ministers (Thai Prime Minister) Cyprus
Ministers (Government changes)
Female Foreign Ministers (Cypriot Foreign Minister)
03.08.11 Peru Ministers
(New government) Peru Heads (New
Vice-President) Female Vice-presidents
(Ditto)
27.07.11 Uganda
Parliament (New Speaker of the National Assembly)
Female Presidents of
Parliaments from 2000 (Updates) Spain
Local Leaders (President of the Government of Aragón)
Woman Local Premiers from 1990 (Updates) Nigeria
Ministers (Government changes) Norway
Ministers (Updates) Somalia
Ministers (Government changes) Greece Parties
(New Party Leader) Female Governors
of External Territories (Updates)
11.07.11 Female
Governors of External Territories (New High Commissioner of
Greenland) Lebanon Ministers (New
government without women) Vanuatu Ministers
(New government without women)
09.07.11
Southern
Sudan Ministers (Updates of the government members in the country
that became independent on 09.07.11)
South
Sudan Local Leaders (Updates)
08.07.11 Thailand Ministers
(Designate Prime Minister) Woman
Premier Ministers (Yingluck
Shinawatra is Thai Designate Prime Minister)
Turkey Ministers (Government changes)
Woman Local
Premiers from 1990 (Government Presidents of Castilla in Spain,
Sankt Gallen (See 2006) and
Neuchâtel in Switzerland)
06.07.11
Portugal Ministers
(New government with 10 male ministers, 2,
female, 28 male state secretaries and 6, female)
Uganda Ministers (Government
changes) Nouvelle
Caledonie Ministers (Government changes)
Czech Republic Ministers (New Deputy
Premier) Woman Vice Premiers from
2000 (Finish and Czech Vice-Premiers)
Finland Parties
(Updates) Costa Rica
Local Leaders (Governor in 1970)
Guyana Parties
(Updates)
05.07.11 Finland Ministers
(New government) Woman Premier
Ministers (Mari Johanna
Kiviniemi left office as Prime Minister of Finland)
Woman Vice Premiers from 2000
(Finish Vice-Premier) Female
Finance Ministers from 2000 (who is also Minister of Finance, also a
Finance Minister from Benin and Budget from France.)
Djibouti Ministers (Government changes)
Niue Ministers (New government)
Kuwait Ministers (Government changes)
Cote d'Ivoire Ministers (New government)
Greece Ministers (Government changes - with a
substantial reduction of the number of women which was already low)
Nepal Ministers (Appointment of further
ministers) Benin Ministers (Government
changes)
Canada Ministers (Appointment of
Parliamentary Secretaries) Portugal
Parliament (Updates) Portugal
Parliament (Portugese Parliament President)
09.07.11 Southern Sudan
Ministers (Updates of the government members in the country that
became independent on 09.07.11) South
Sudan Local Leaders (Updates)
Sweden Parties (Updates)
20.05.11 Singapore Ministers
(Government Changes) Canada Ministers
(Government Changes) Female
Finance Ministers from 2000 (Candian Minister of Revenue)
Northern Ireland Ministers
(Government Changes) Scotland Ministers
(Government Changes)
Germany Local Leaders (Updates)
Australia Local Leaders (Chief
Minister of ATC and updates of Parliament Chairs)
India Local Leaders (Chief Ministers of
Tamil Nadu and the West Bengal)
Woman Local Premiers from 1990 (Ditto)
Cook Islands Parliament
(Updates) Thailand Parties (Prime
Ministerial Candidate)
15.05.11 Germany Ministers
(Updates) Wales Ministers (Government
changes) Andorra Ministers (2 Ministers but
State Secretaries not yet public)
Australia Local Leaders (Acting Chief Minister of the Australian
Capital Territory) Woman Local Premiers
from 1990 (Updates)
11.05.11 Woman Local
Premiers from 1990 (New Swiss Chief of Government)
Germany Parties (Birgit
Homburger replaced of Faction Chair of FDP)
Wales Parliament (New Presiding
Officer) Scotland Parliament
(New Presiding Officer and Deputy Presiding Officer)
05.05.11 Female
Governors from 2005
(Updates) Columbia Local Leaders
(Updates) Female Representatives to
United Nations (Updates)
30.04.11 Vanuatu
Ministers
(Government changes) France Local Leaders
(New Department Presidents) Woman Local
Premiers from 1990 (Ditto)
24.04.11
Female Presidents of Parliaments from 2000
(See 2008, President of the Assembly of the European Regions)
Austria Ministers (Government change)
Female Finance Ministers from 2000
(Austrian Finance Minister) Female Ministers of Interior, Home
Affairs, Security, Civil Defence and Police (New Austrian Interior
Minister) Estonia Ministers (Government
change) Estonia Parliament
(Various updates) Estonia Parties
(Various updates) Niger Ministers (New
government) Burkina Faso Ministers
(Government changes) Central African
Republic Ministers (New government)
17.04.11 St. Helena Parliament
(Speaker from 2008) Turk and Caicos Parliament
(New information) Female Presidents of
Parliaments 1990-99 (New information (1991 and 1998))
Female Presidents of Parliaments from 2000
(Saint Helena Speaker (2008)) Syria Ministers
(Government changes) Nepal Ministers (New
government) Female Presidential
Candidates from 2000 (Updates)
Switzerland Local Leaders
(Chief of Government of
Ticino) Woman Local Premiers from 1990
(Updates)
11.04.11 Kosova
Ministers (New President) Female Presidents
(President of Kosovo) Iceland Parliament
(Chair of the Constituent Council) Female Presidents of Parliaments from 2000
(Updates) French Polynesia (ew
government)
06.04.11 San Marino Ministers
(New Captain Regent) San Marino Parliament
(Who is also Joint Head of the Parliament) Female Presidents
(San Marionese Joint Head of State) Mali Ministers
(New Prime Minister) Woman Premier
Ministers (Malinese Prime Minister) Madagascar Ministers
(Government changes) Female Foreign Ministers
(New Madagasque Foreign Minister)
Martinique (President of the General
Council) Woman Premier
Ministers of External Territories (Ditto)
28.03.11 Peru Ministers (New
Prime Minister) Woman Premier
Ministers (Peruvian Prime Minister) Samoa
Ministers (Government changes)
Australia Local Leaders (Premier of New South Wales looses elections
and other updates) Woman Local Premiers
from 1990 (See 2009)
23.03.11 Federation of Bosnia and
Herzegovina (New (male) President)
Women in power from 2000
Cape Verde Ministers (Government
changes)
Serbia Ministers
(Government changes) Woman Vice Premiers from 2000
(New Cape Verdan and Serbian Vice-Prime Ministers)
Montserrat (Deputy Governor)
Female Governors of External
Territories (Acting Governor of Montserrat) Canada Local Leaders
(New Premier of British Colombia) Woman Local Premiers from 1990
(New Canadian Premier) Germany Local
Leaders (Hamburg gets new Deputy Chief of Government and President
of the Parliament)
11.03.11 Ireland Ministers (New
Government, with 3 female and 14 male cabinet members and 4 female and
11 male Ministers of State) Egypt Ministers (Government changes
(just one women left)) Denmark List
of Female Party Leaders (New Political Spokesperson of Venstre)
08.03.11 Serbia Ministers
(Updates) Germany Local Leaders (New
President of the Burgerschaft of Hamburg (see 2000)) List of Danish
Female Ministers (Government change (Down from 9 female and 10 male
to 7 female and 11 male ministers))
28.02.11 Egypt Ministers
(Updates)
Turkey Ministers (Updates)
Kosova Ministers (Government changes)
Woman Vice Premiers from 2000 (Kosovar
Deputy Prime Ministers) France Ministers
(Resignation of Foreign Minister) Female
Foreign Ministers (Updates (Kosovo and France)
20.02.11 Pakistan Ministers
(Government changes) Female Foreign Ministers
(Minister in charge of the Pakistani Foreign Ministry)
Woman Local Premiers from 1990 (Update)
11.02.11 Kyrgyzstan Ministers
(Government changes) Female Finance Ministers from 2000
(Kyrgyz Acting Finance Minister) Jordan Ministers
(Government change) Russian Local Leaders
(Acting Prime Minister of Kalmykia Woman Local Premiers from 1990
(Ditto) Palau Local Leaders (Governor
of
Angaur (Ngeaur)) Female Governors from
2005 (Governor in Palau)
06.02.11 Egypt Ministers
(Government changes) Tunisia Ministers(Government changes) Balau/Palau Ministers
(Correction and new information
Female Representatives to United Nations (New Czech Ambassador)
26.01.11 Australia Local Leaders (3
of Australia's States and Territories now have got female Premiers)
Woman
Local Premiers from 1990 (Australian Premier of Tasmania)
Monaco Ministers
(Government changes) Female Finance
Ministers from 2000 (Monasque Finance Minister replaced by a man)
List of Danish Female Ministers
(Replacement of another Conservative Party leader)
22.01.11 Ireland Ministers
(Government changes) Andorra Ministers
(Government changes) Israel Ministers
(Government changes) Israel Parties
(Group Chair of newly formed Party)
Female Presidential Candidates from 2000 (Updates)
Woman Vice Presidential Candidates
from 2000 (Updates) Peru Parties
(Updates) Peru Local Leaders (Updates)
18.01.11 Tunisia Ministers
(New government) Gabon Ministers (Government
changes) Female Defence Ministers
(Gabonese Defence Minister moved to another portfolio) France Parties
(Updates)
14.01.11 List of Danish Female Ministers
(Lene Espersen resigns as Party Leader and Vice-Premier)
USA Local Leaders (Updates on Lt. Governors)
11.01.11 Tonga (New
government)
01.01.11 Brazil Ministers
(New President and new government
Switzerland Ministers (For the first time a woman takes over as
President from another woman - also a world first)
Female Presidents (Brazilian and Swiss
Presidents) Croatia Ministers (Government
changes) Montenegro (Government
changes)
Female Finance Ministers from 2000
(Croatian Minister)
Switzerland Local Leaders (Updates to Fribourg, Graubünden, Jura,
Luzern, Schaffhausen, Solothurn, and Zug)
24.12.10 Iraq
Ministers (New government) Argentina Ministers
(Minister of Defence moved to Ministry of Security)
Female Ministers of Interior, Home
Affairs, Security, Civil Defence and Police (Update)
Brazil Ministers (Designate Ministers)
Iran Ministers (Two Vice-Presidents appointed in
2009)
Female Vice-presidents Iranian
Vice-Presidents
Laos Parliament (President of the National Assembly)
Female Presidents of Parliaments from 2000
(Laotian Parliament Chair)
19.12.10 Saint
Vincent Ministers (Government changes)
Woman Vice Premiers from 2000 (St.
Vincent Deputy Premier) Cook Islands Ministers (New
government - without women) Kyrgyzstan
Ministers (New Government -without women)
Netherland
Parties (New leader of the Green Party)
13.12.10 Switzerland
Ministers (Designate President and Vice-President)
Female Presidents (Designate Swiss
President (see 2007)) Female
Vice-presidents (Designate Swiss Vice-President)
Sierra Leone Ministers (Government
change) Female Foreign Ministers
(Sierra Leone Minister replaced)
Israel Parliament (New Deputy Speaker)
Canada Local Leaders (New Premier
of Newfoundland and Labrador) Woman Local
Premiers from 1990 (Canadian Premier) Angola Local Leaders
(Updates) Columbia Local Leaders
(Updates) Poland Local Leaders
(Updates) Female Governors from 2005
(Angolan and Columbian Governors)
27.11.10 Tanzania Ministers
(Government changes) Grenada Ministers
(Government changes) Georgia Ministers (New
Deputy Premier) Woman Vice Premiers
from 2000 (New Georgian Vice-Premier)
Woman Local Premiers from 1990 (New South African Provincial
Premier) South Africa Local Leaders
(New Premier)
19.11.10 Mauritius Ministers
(New Vice-President) Female
Vice-presidents (Vice-President of Mauritius)
Belize Parliament (Andrea
Gill replaced as Senate President by a man)
Tanzania Parliament
(New National Assembly Speaker)
Female Presidents of Parliaments from 2000
(Updates) South Africa Ministers
(Updates) Female Presidential Candidates
from 2000 (Updates)
14.11.10 France Ministers
(Government Changes) Liberia Ministers
(Government changes) Female Foreign Ministers
(New French Minister of External Relations and European Affairs and
dismissal of the Liberian minister)
Female Finance Ministers from 2000
(Updates) Czech Republic Parliament
(Updates) Female Presidents of
Parliaments from 2000 (Acting Czech Senate President)
Sweden Parties (Mona Salin
announces that she will step down as Social Democrat Leader in March
2011)
Northern Ireland Ministers
(Updates)
06.10.11
USA Local Leaders (Updates on governors)
Palau Local Leaders (New governors)
Female Governors from 2005 (Updates)
01.10.11 Brazil Ministers
(President Elect (See 2003)) Female
Presidents (Dilma Vana Rousseff is President-elect of Brazil)
Bermuda Ministers (Government changes)
Woman Heads of State and Government
(Paula Cox is new Bermudan Premier (The third woman))
Female Finance Ministers from 2000
(New Bermudan Minister of Economy)
Latvia Ministers (Government appointments)
Latvia Parliament (New speaker)
Germany Parliament (New President
of the Chamber of the States) Female Presidents of Parliaments from 2000
(Updates) France Local Leaders (New
Acting Regional President) Woman Local Premiers from 1990
(French Acting Regional President)
20.10.10 Kosova Ministers
(Changes to the government) Spain Ministers
(Government changes - 7 women and 8 men (Including the Prime Minister)) Female Foreign
Ministers (Foreign Ministers of Kosovo and Spain)
Sweden Ministers (Appointment of more State
Secretaries)
15.10.10 Netherlands
Ministers (New government with 4 women (none on important posts) and
16 men (8%)) Åland Ministers (New
minister (in 2009). From then on 4 members are women (including the
Chief and Deputy Chief of Governent) and 3 are men)
Austria Local Leaders (Updates)
Netherland Parties (Updates)
10.10.10 Netherlands Antillies Ministers
(The entity is abolished) Sint Maarten
(New entity in the Kingdom of the Netherlands) Curaçao
(New entity in the Kingdom of the Netherlands)
Woman
Heads of State and Government (Updates with former Prime Minister
of the Nederlandse Antillen and new Prime Minister in Sint Maarten)
Current Women Leaders (Updates)
Sint Maarten Parliament
(Chairperson of the new Parliament)
Female Presidents of Parliaments from 2000 (Updates)
Netherlands Ministers (Designate Ministers
(so far 2 out of 12 are women. No designated female State Secretaries so
far)
08.10.10
Woman Premier Ministers (Death
of Milka Planinc, Chair of the Executive Council of Yugoslavia 1982-86)
Sweden Ministers (Government
changes (11 women and 13 men)) Ethiopia Ministers
(Government changes),
Belarus Ministers (Additional information
about the first Acting Head of the Republic in 1938)
Female Presidents of Parliaments 1920-90
(Added photo of Grekova) Brazil Local Leaders
(Updates of Newly elected, re-elected and no-elected Governors from 1.
January 2011)
01.10.10 Canada Heads of
State (Term of Governor General ends)
Female Governor Generals (Updates) Barbados Ministers
(Government changes) Botswana Ministers
(Government changes) Female Defence Ministers
(Botswanan Acting Minister) North Korea Parties,
Botswana Heads of State (Information
about chiefs) Netherlands Local Leaders
(Designate Governor of Overijsel) Female Governors from 2005
(Ditto)
27.09.10 Uzbekistan Ministers
(Updates), Switzerland Ministers
(Government changes - with 5 of the 8 Councillors and Federal Chancellor
being women) Female Vice-presidents
(New Swiss Vice-President) Female
Finance Ministers from 2000 (Updates)
Female Ministers of Interior, Home
Affairs, Security, Civil Defence and Police (Updates)
Woman Premier Ministers of
External Territories (Designate Premier of Sint Maarten) Sint Maarten
(Designate Prime Minister of the new entity within the Kingdom of the
Netherlands to be established on 10.10.09) Curaçau
(New entity within the Kingdom of the Netherlands)
Nederlandse Antillen Local
Leaders (Updates)
21.09.10 Senegal Ministers
(Government change) Woman Vice
Premiers from 2000 (New Senegalese Ministers of State) Pakistan Local Leaders
(Death of Governor) Female Governors from 2005
(Updates)
17.09.10 Peru Ministers
(Government changes) Japan Ministers
(Government changes) Female
Ministers of Interior, Home Affairs, Security, Civil Defence and Police
(Updates)
10.09.10 Australia Ministers
(Government change) Female
Finance Ministers from 2000 (Updates) Czech Republic Local
Leaders (A governor steps down)
07.09.10 Romania Ministers
(Government change) Greece Ministers
(Government change - down from 5 to 3 female ministers in the European
government which already had the lowest percentage of women)
Female Governors from 2005 (New British
Lord Lieutenant) Female Presidential Candidates from 2000
(Updates)
30.08.10 Bahamas Ministers
(Updates) Kenya Ministers (Updates)
Burundi Ministers (Government changes)
Burundi Parliament (Updates)
Brazil Parliament (Updates)
Philippines Parliament
(Updates)
Dominican Republic Local Leaders
(Updates) Female Governors from 2005
(New Dominican governors) Female
Governors of External Territories (New governor of the Easter
Islands) Woman Chiefs of
Police (Updates)
15.08.10 São
Tomé e Príncipé Ministers (New government)
Suriname Ministers (New government)
Female Finance Ministers from 2000
(Updates)
08.08.10 Columbia Ministers
(New Government) Female Foreign
Ministers (Columbian Minister) South
Korea (Government change)
British Virgin Islands Ministers (Acting Governor)
30.07.10 Jordan Ministers (Government
Change) Somaliland Ministers (Government
change) Turkey Substates (Added
information about Saltuklu),
Georgia Substates (Updates to the
Bosporanian Realm) Australia
External Territories (Updates)
Female Presidential Candidates from 2000 (Updates)
28.07.10 Cook Islands
Ministers (Government change) Norfolk Island Ministers
(Government Change) Norfolk Island Parliament
(Speaker) Female Presidents of
Parliaments from 2000 (Norfolk Island Speaker)
25.07.10 Saint Lucia Parliament
(New information of Senate Speaker from 2008, who is replaced by another
woman) Female Presidents of Parliaments
from 2000 (Saint Lucia Senate Speakers in 2008 and 2010)
Slovenia Ministers (Darja Radić is New
Economy Minister (See 2008))
Female Finance Ministers from 2000 (Slovene Economy Minister)
22.07.10 Mexico Ministers
(Government changes) Woman Vice
Premiers from 2000 (Kyrgyz Vice Premier (see 2009))
Female Ministers of the Presidency
(Venezuelan Minister) Latvia Parties
(Updates) Rwanda Party Leaders
(Updates)
Mexico Parties (Updates) Belgium
Parliament (Updates) Herm (Updates)
14.07.10 Germany Local Leaders
(New Premier and Deputy Premier of Nordrhein-Westfalen and other
updates) Woman Local Premiers from 1990
(Hannelore Kraft is Ministerpräsidentin of NRW)
Tonga Heads (Updates of Regencies of
Princess Pilolevu Tuita)
08.07.10
Slovakia Ministers (New Government)
Woman Premier Ministers (Iveta
Radičová is Slovak Prime Minister)
Czech Republic Ministers (New government without women)
Slovakia Parliament (Updates)
07.07.10 Georgia Ministers
(New Economy Minister) Female Finance Ministers
from 2000 (Georgian Minister) Panamá Local Leaders
(New Governor) Female Governors from 2005
(Update)
01.07.10 Philippine Ministers
(New government) Venezuela Ministers
(Government changes) Zimbabwe Ministers
(Government changes) Female Ministers of Interior, Home
Affairs, Security, Civil Defence and Police (Zimbabwean Home Affairs
Minister) Suriname Parliament
(New Chairperson and Deputy Chairperson)
Female Presidents of Parliaments from 2000
(Surinam Chair)
Netherlands Parliament
(Updates) Eitrea Ministers (Updates)
Switzerland Chiefs of
Government (Updates) Woman Local
Premiers from 1990 (Landammann
of Obwalden in 2010)
28.06.10 Slovakia Ministers
(Iveta Radičová
is charged with the formation of a government)
Columbia Ministers (Designate Foreign
Minister) Female Foreign Ministers
(Designate Columbian Foreign Minister)
Hungary Parties
(Updates) Czech Republic Parliament
(Updates)
24.06.10 Australia Ministers
(Julia Gillard is new Prime Minister)
Woman Heads of State and Government (New Australian Prime Minister)
Belgium Parties (Updates)
22.06.10 Current Women Leaders
(New Prime Minister of Finland) Russian Local Leaders
(New Premier of Yakut) Woman Local Premiers from 1990
(Update) Pitcairn Ministers (New
Governor)
South Georgia (Updates)
Female Governors of External
Territories (Updates)
18.06.10 Sudan Ministers
(Government changes)
Trinidad and Tobago Parliament (Updates)
14.06.10
Finland Ministers (Updates and Designate Prime Minister)
Woman Vice
Premiers from 2000 (Mari Kiviniemi designated to take over as Prime
Minister 22. June 2010) Slovakia Ministers
(Government change) Seychelles Ministers
(Government change) Female Presidents of Parliaments from 2000
(President of the Baltic Sea Parliamentary Conference from 2009)
Female Presidential Candidates from 2000
(Updates) Vojvodina (New government)
10.06.10 Korea North
Ministers (Government change)
Woman Vice Premiers from 2000 (North Korean Vice Premiers)
Japan Ministers (Government change)Female
Presidents of Parliaments from 2000
07.06.10 Iceland Local Leaders
(Updates) Iceland Parties (Updates)
Nederlandse Antillen Local
Leaders (Updates) Honduras Local Leaders
(Updates) Honduras Ministers (Updates)
22.05.10 Brunei (New appointments) Togo
Ministers (Government changes) 28.05.10 Trinidad and Tobago Ministers
(New government) Libya Ministers (Government
Changes) Female Presidents of
Parliaments from 2000 (Speaker of the Arab Parliament (From 2009))
25.05.10 Woman
Premier Ministers (Kamla Persad-Bissessar is Prime Minister of
Trinidad) Trinidad and Tobago
Ministers (Updates) Slovakia Parties
(Updates)
20.05.10 Hungary Ministers
(New government with no female Ministers or State Secretaries)
Hungary Parliament (Updates)
Mexico Parliament (Updates)
Canada Local Leaders (New
Commissioner of Nunavut)
Female Governors from 2005 (Updates)
14.05.10 United Kingdom
Ministers (New Vice-Ministers - the full government has got 14
female and 83 male members and only 2 liberal women)) Peru
Local Leaders (New governor) Urugay
Local Leaders (Updates)
Philippines Local Leaders (Updates)
Female Governors 1990-2000 (Philippine updates)
Female Governors 2000-2005 (Philippine
updates)
Female Governors from 2005 (Various updates)
Taiwan Ministers (New appointment)
Female Finance Ministers from 2000
(Updates)
12.05.10 United Kingdom Ministers
(New Cabinet with 4 Conservative women and 19 Conservative and Liberal
men) Female Ministers of Interior, Home
Affairs, Security, Civil Defence and Police (British Home Affairs
Minister)
Mauritius Ministers(New government with 3 women and 23 men)
10.05.10 Female Presidents
(Laura Chincilla took office as President of Costa Rica 8. May)
Costa Rica Parliament (Updates)
Israel Parliament (Updates)
05.05.10
Switzerland Chiefs of
Government (Updates - also see Glarus 2008) Woman Local Premiers from 1990
(Updates) Costa Rica Ministers (Designate
ministers - 10 women and 12 men
and a number of Vice-Ministers)
Malaysia Parties (Updates)
Columbia Local Leaders (Acting
Governor) Dominican Republic
Local Leaders (New Governor) Cuba Local
(New Local Assembly President) Female
Governors from 2005 (Updates)
01.05.10 Belgium Parties
(Updates) Czech Republic Parliament
(Acting Speaker of the Chamber of Deputies)
Female Presidents of Parliaments from 2000
(Updates) Sudan Local Leaders (Updates)
Sri Lanka Ministers (Government changes)
26.04.10 India Local
Leaders (Death of Governor of Rajestan)
Female Governors from 2005 (See 2008)
Russian Local Leaders (Premier
of the Republic of Chuvashia) Woman Local
Premiers from 1990 (Russian Premier)
24.04.10 Netherlands
Antillies Ministers (Government change)
Belgium Ministers (Government change) Ecuador
Ministers (Updates) Female
Finance Ministers from 2000 (Ecuadorian Economy Minister)
Women Bishops (Various updates)
20.04.10 Czech
Republic Ministers (New Environment Minister (see 2006)) Panama Ministers
(New Interior Minister) Female
Ministers of Interior, Home Affairs, Security, Civil Defence and Police
(Panamanian Minister of Interior)
Female Representatives to United Nations (New Ambassadors)
16.04.10 Kyrgyzstan
Ministers (The Provisorial Government)
12.04.10 Brazil Ministers
(Government Change) Female
Ministers of the Presidency (New Brazilian Presidency Chief)
10.04.10 Poland Ministers,
Poland Parliament and
Poland Parties (Former Minister and
Party Leader Izabela Jaruga-Nowacka, former Under-Secretaries of State
Jolanta Szymanek-Derescz, who was Deputy Party Chairperson and Grażyna
Gęsicka, who was also Parliamentary Party Leader, Vice-Chairperson of
the Senate Krystyna Bochenek and Deputy Party Leader Aleksandra
Natalli-Świat
were killed when the plane carrying the President of Poland crashed in
Russia on 10. April with a high number of diginitaries).
08.04.10 Kyrgyzstan
Ministers (New Government) Female
Presidents (Head of the Kyrgyz Interim Government) Nigeria Ministers
(Allocations of Portfolios)
Montserrat Parliament (New Speaker)
Female Presidents of Parliaments from 2000
(Montserrat Speaker) Australia Local
Leaders (New Speaker of the South Australian Assembly)
Israel Local Leaders (Updates)
01.04.10
Balau/Palau Ministers
(Foreign Minister Replaced) Female Foreign Ministers
(Updates) Italy Local Leaders (Updates)
Canada Local Leaders (Updates)
Woman Local Premiers from 1990 (Canadian
Acting Premier and Italian Regional Presidents)
09.03.10
Danish Local Leaders (Added list of Danish Parish Council
Chairpersons and Mayors)
26.03.10 Ireland Ministers
(Government change)
Nigeria Ministers (Designate Ministers)
Pakistan Local Leaders (Appointment of
the second female governor ever)
Female Governors from 2005
(Updates) Danish Party Leaders
(Updates) Female Ambassadors J-R
(First female Ambassador from Monaco)
23.03.10 Latvia
Ministers
(Government changes) Namibia Ministers
(Government changes)
Woman Vice Premiers from 2000 (Nambian
Vice Premier leaves office (See 2005)) Falkland Islands
(Updates) France Local Leaders
(Updates)
Female Governors
1920-90 (Added photo of first Costarican Governor (1970)
Matilde Marín
Chinchilla)
Namibia Parliament
(Updates)
19.03.10 Nigeria Ministers
(Government change) Costa Rica Ministers
(Designate Ministers) Chile Local Leaders
(New Intendent) Female Governors from
2005 (Chilenan Intendents)
Female Governors of External Territories (Chilenan Governor of
Antarctica) Woman Vice Presidential
Candidates from 2000 (Updates)
12.03.10 Chile Ministers
(New government) Chile Local Leaders
(Updates) Female Governors from 2005
(Chilean Intendent) Female
Ministers of the Presidency (Chilean Presidency Minister)
11.03.10 Female Presidents
(Chilean President leaves office)
Chile Parliament (New President of the Chamber of Deputies)
Female Presidents of Parliaments from 2000
(Ditto) Current Women Leaders
(Updates)
10.03.10 Netherland Parties(Party
Leader resigns (see 1998)) Female
Presidential Candidates from 2000 (Updates)
07.03.10 Ukraine Ministers
(Yuliya Tymoshenko resigns
as Prime Minister after a vote of no confidence) Woman Premier Ministers
(Updates)
06.03.10 Finland Ministers
(Government changes in 2009 and 2010 (Eeva
Kuuskaski, Social Minister tvice from 1983 became Secretary of State of
the Ministry in 2010)). Finland Parties
(New leader of the Greens (see 2000)).
Niger Ministers (Complete list of new female ministers)
Denmark Parliament (New Secretary
of the Folketing)
Danish Party Leaders (who also became
Group Secretary of the Conservative People's Party)
Philippines Local Leaders (Acting
Governor) Female Governors from 2005
(Updates)
03.03.10 Urugay Ministers
(New Government) Niger Ministers (New
Government) Female Foreign Ministers
(New Foreign Minister from Niger)
01.03.10 Netherlands Ministers
(Government change) List of Danish Female Ministers
(Government changes) Female Ministers of Interior, Home
Affairs, Security, Civil Defence and Police (Dutch and Danish
Interior Ministers leaves office)
Anguilla Parliament (New Speaker)
Female Presidents of Parliaments from 2000 (Ditto)
Poland Substates (Information about
Overseers of Royal Lands)
23.02.10 Denmark Ministers
(Government change (9 women and 10 men))
Female Foreign Ministers (Lene
Espersen is Danish Foreign Minister)
Female Defence Ministers (Gitte Lillelund Bech is Danish Defence
Minister)
22.02.10 Niger Ministers
(Government deposed in coup d'etat) Female Foreign Ministers
(Including the Foreign Minister of Niger)
Female Presidential Candidates from 2000
(Updates)
18.02.10 Guinea Ministers
(New government) Pitcairn Ministers
(Updates)
Female Presidents of Parliaments from 2000 (Updates)
12.02.10 Female Presidents of Parliaments
from 2000 (Guinean President),
Pitcairn Ministers Guinea Parliament
(Updates) Woman Vice Premiers from
2000 (Two Vice-Presidents of the European Commission)
Chile Ministers (Designate Ministers (6 women
and 16 men) Female Foreign
Ministers (Updates) Female Governors
from 2005 (Russian District Governor)
08.02.10
Costa Rica Ministers (Laura
Chinchilla Mirand elected President) Female
Presidents (Costa Rican President-elect)
Female Presidential Candidates from 2000
(Updates) Sweden Ministers
(Ministerial Appointment)
Saint Christopher and Nevis Ministers (New government with first
female minister in 5 years) Angola
Ministers (Government changes) Botswana Ministers
(Government changes) Urugay
Parliament (Updates) Female
Presidents of Parliaments from 2000 (Designate Uruguay Speaker)
01.02.10 Honduras Ministers
(New Government) Female Vice-presidents
(Honduran Deputy Head of State)
27.01.10 Austria Ministers (New
Minister) Lithuania Ministers (Acting
Foreign Minister) Female Foreign
Ministers (Lithuanian Minister) Gibraltar (Acting Govornor in
2009)
26.01.10 Syria Ministers
(New Minister of Economy)
The Vatican State (New Information) Bolivia
Ministers (New government with 50% women) Ghana
Ministers (Government changes)
Canada Cabinet (Government changes) Ecuador
Ministers (New Minister of Police)
Female Ministers of Interior, Home
Affairs, Security, Civil Defence and Police (Updates)
Female Finance Ministers from 2000
(Syrian Minister) Sweden Local
Leaders (New Governor of Gotland)
Female Governors from 2005 (Palestinian (from 2009) and Swedish
Governors) Trinidad
and Tobago Parties (New Party Leader)
Indian Parties (New Opposition Leader
in the Lower House (see 1995))
20.01.10
Mozambique Ministers (Government change)
Woman Premier Ministers (Luisa Diogo
leaves office as Mozambique Premier)
Guinea Ministers (Government change)
Woman Vice Premiers from 2000
(Guinean Vice-Premier (who was candidate for Prime Minister)) Equatorial
Guinea Ministers (Government changes)
European Union (Bulgarian Designate Commissioner withdraws and is
replaced by another woman, but remains in office as Foreign Minister)
Bolivia Parliament (Updates)
Female Presidents of Parliaments from 2000
(Bolivian Senate President)
India Local Leaders (New Governors)
Mozambique Local Leaders (New
Governors) Bolivia Parliament
(Updates) South Ossetia (Updates)
Nargonyi-Karabakh (Updates)
Nakhichevan Autonomous Republic (Updates)
Abkhasia (Updates)
16.01.10 Mozambique Parliament
(New Parliament Speaker) Female
Presidents of Parliaments from 2000 (Updates) Poland Parties
(New Group Chairperson of a Party)
Republic of Afganistan
(Designate Ministers)
11.01.10 Northern
Ireland Ministers (Acting First Minister)
Woman Local Premiers from 1990 (Northern
Ireland Acting First Minster) Aruba Ministers
(Added Deputy Governors) Chile Ministers (New
Minister of National Assets) Georgia Ministers
(New Minister of Correctional Affairs)
Kazakstan Ministers (New Minister of Labour
and Social Affairs) Zambia Ministers (New
Minister of Lands)
10.01.10 Cook Islands Ministers
(Government changes)
Madagascar Ministers (Government changes)
Costa Rica (Updates)
Columbia Local Leaders (Updates)
Angola Local Leaders (Updates)
Ghana Substates (Corrections and new
information) Women with power 1840-70(Updates)
Women with power 1870-1900(Updates)
Women in power 1900-1940
(Updates) Women in power 1940-1970
(Updates) Female Presidential Candidates from 2000
(Updates)
04.01.10
Republic of Afghanistan (Only female nominee (Incumbent Women's
Minister) rejected by parliament together with 17 of the 24
appointments) Dominica Ministers
(Government changes)
01.01.10 Switzerland Ministers
(Doris Leuthard takes
office as Preisdent)
Female Presidents (Swiss President)
Switzerland Local Leaders
(Number of new Parliament Presidents)
Burkina Faso Local Leaders (New
governors) Sweden Local Leaders
(New governors) Danish Local Leaders
(Updates on Departemental Mayors in Copenhagen)
Female Governors 1990-2000 (Updates)
Female Governors 2000-2005 (Updates)
Female Governors from 2005 (Updates)
29.12.09 Peru Ministers
(Government Change) Female
Finance Ministers from 2000 (Peruvian Finance Minister)
Female Presidential Candidates from 2000
(Updates)
21.12.09 Madagascar
Ministers (Prime Minister replaced
after 2 days in office)
Woman Premier Ministers (Madagasque Premier replaced)
20.12.09 List of Danish
Female Ministers (Government change)
Eitrea Ministers
(Government change) Female Governors
1920-90 (Updates) Female Governors
1990-2000 (Updates) Female Governors
2000-2005 (Updates) Female Governors
from 2005 Woman Local
Premiers from 1990 (Updates)
Sri Lanka Parliament
(Senate Vice-President in 1955)
Chile Local Leaders (Intendent in 1950 and other updates)
Estonia Local Leaders (Added governors)
Lithuania Local Leaders (Added governors)
Argentina Local Leaders (First female governor in 1990)
Portugal Local Leaders (Various updates)
Eitrea Local Leaders (Regional Administrator)
Turkey
Local Leaders (Added Sub-Governor)
Moldova Local Leaders (Added Regional Presidents)
Peru Local Leaders (Updates on Regional Presidents)
Malta Local Leaders (Added mayors)
Andorra Local Leaders (Added mayors=
San Marino Local Leaders (Added mayors)
Algeria Local Leaders
(Updates)
Liberia Local Leaders (Updates)
18.12.09 Madagascar
Ministers (Cécile Manorohanta, who has
been Acting as Premier since 3. December in the absence of the Premier,
she was appointed to the position)
Woman Premier Ministers (Madagasque Premier)
07.12.09 Honduras Ministers
(Vice-President Elect) Female
Vice-presidents (Ditto) United States
of America Government (Updates)
06.12.09 Rwanda Ministers
(New Foreign Minister) Female Foreign
Ministers (Ditto) Australia
Local Leaders (Premier of New South Wales)
Woman Local Premiers 1990 (Update)
02.12.09 Switzerland
Ministers (President-elect)
01.12.09 French
Polynesia (New government)
29.11.09 Germany Ministers
(Government changes) Philippine Ministers
(Government changes (see 2003 and 2009)
Costa Rica Local Leaders (Updates on
Governors)
27.11.09 European Union
(Designate EU-Commissioners)
26.11.09 Belgium Ministers
(Government changes) Female
Representatives to United Nations (New Ambassadors)
Female Presidents of Parliaments from 2000
(Updates)
25.11.09 Danish Local
Leaders (Departemental Mayors of Copenhagen from 2010)
Danish Party Leaders (Updates)
24.11.09 List of Danish
Female Ministers (Government changes (now 9 women and 11 men))
European Union (Last designate
Commissioners)
23.11.09
Switzerland Parliament (Female Presidents of both chambers)
Female Presidents of Parliaments from 2000
(Updates) Portugal Local Leaders
(Updates) Burundi Local Leaders
(Updates) Rwanda Local Leaders
(Updates)
19.11.09 European
Union
(Designate Commissioners) Female
Foreign Ministers (Designate EU-High Representative for Foreign
Affairs) Congo-Brazzaville Ministers
(Updates) Congo-Kinshasa
Parliament
(Updates) Hong Kong Parliament
(Updates) Bermuda Parliament
(Updates) Female Presidents of
Parliaments from 2000
(Various updates)
16.11.09 Woman
Premier Ministers (Madagascan Acting Premier leaves office)
Burundi Parliament (Updates)
11.11.09 Haiti Ministers
(New government) Woman Premier
Ministers (Haitian Prime Minister repleced)
Female Foreign Ministers (New
Haitian Minister)
10.11.09 Lebanon Ministers
(New Government) Female Finance
Ministers from 2000 (Lebanese Finance Minister)
04.11.09 Chile Ministers
(Minister of Women's Affairs replaced) Ecuador
Ministers (New appointment)
Female Representatives to United Nations (Ecuador's UN Ambassador
re-appointed to cabinet) Germany
Parties (Updates)
03.11.09 Portugal
Ministers
(5 female and 32 male State Secretaries appointed)
02.11.09 Woman Local
Premiers 1990 (Christine Liebknecht, Minister-President of the
German state of Thüringen) Guinea Ministers
(New appointment) Guinea Bissau Ministers
(Government change)
Chronological List of Female Foreign Ministers (Guinea-Bissauan
Foreign Minister leaves office)
29.10.09 Portugal
Ministers
(5 female and 12 male ministers (Up from 1 woman and 16 men (State
Secretaries announced later))
28.10.09 Botswana Ministers
(Government changes) Germany
Parliament (Updates)
27.10.09 Madagascar
Ministers (Acting Premier)
Woman Premier Ministers
(Madagascque Acting Premier)
26.10.09 Germany Ministers
(New government with 5 women (Including the Federal Chancellor) and 11
men)
22.10.09 Indonsia Ministers
(Government changes) Kyrgyzstan Ministers
(Government changes) Woman Vice
Premiers from 2000 (New Kyrgyz Vice-Premier)
21.10.09
Botswana Parliament (New Speaker)
Female Presidents of Parliaments from 2000 (Speaker of Botswana's
National Assembly) Norway Ministers
(Updated with State Secretaries)
20.10.09 Norway Ministers
(Government Changes - 10 women and 10 men)
Female Defence Ministers (New
Norwegian Defence Minister - the 4th woman and the 3rd in a row)
Chronological List of
Finance Ministers (Norwegian Finance Minister leaves office)
Woman Vice Presidential Candidates from 2000 (Updates)
Germany Local Leaders (Designate Premier
of Thüringen)
18.10.09 Female
Presidents
(Gabonese Interim President since June leaves office)
Gabon Ministers (Government changes)
Woman Vice Premiers from 2000 (Two
Gabonese Vice-Premiers replaced)
Female Defence Ministers (New Gabonese Defence Minister)
Panamá Local Leaders (Updates)
16.10.09 Senegal Ministers
(Government change (see 1991)) Woman
Vice Premiers from 2000 (Senegalese Deputy Chief of Government (see
2005)) Iran Ministers (New Vice-President)
Female Vice-presidents (Iranian
Vice-President)
15.10.09 United Kingdom
Ministers (Government changes)
Female Finance Ministers from 2000
(Aruban Economy Minister) Aruba Ministers
(New government)
Aruba Parliament (Parliament
Chairperson replaced) Female
Presidents of Parliaments from 2000 (Updates)
13.10.09 Female
Presidents of Parliaments 1920-70 (Added Picture of Maldivian Senate
President 1953-54 Female Presidents of
Parliaments from 2000 (New Bosnia-Herzegovinian Parliament
President) Bosnia Parliament (Ditto)
10.10.09 Norway Parliament
(Vice-Presidents of the Storting)
Andorra Ministers (Added new State
Secretaries) USA Native Entities(New
Chief of the Mohegan Tribe in Conneticut)
06.10.09 Greece Ministers
(New government with 5 women and 10 men on 11 posts (Prime Minister is
Foreign Minister), 2 male Alternate Ministers, 4 female and 15 male
Deputy Ministers)
Female Finance Ministers from 2000
(New Greek Economy Minister) Female
Foreign Ministers (Greek Foreign Minister replaced)
05.10.09
Maldive Islands Parliament (Senate President around 1954)
Iceland Parliament (Updates)
Iceland Ministers (Government change (50%
women in the Cabinet)) Iceland Parties
(Updates), India Local Leaders (New
Governor)
04.10.09 Cayman
Islands Ministers (Deputy Government Leader)
Woman Vice Premiers from 2000
(Ditto) Female Presidents of
Parliaments from 2000 (Updates)
Female Presidential Candidates from 2000 (Updates)
30.09.09 Germany Local
Leaders (Updates) Norway Ministers
(Minister of Fisheries becomes Parliamentary Leader of Labour)
Norway Parties (Ditto)
Female Governors of External
Territories (Updates)
29.09.09 Moldova Ministers
(New government)
27.09.09 Spy Chiefs
(Norwegian Leader of the Police Security Service)
24.09.09 Japan Ministers
(Vice-Ministers)
17.09.09
Lithuania Parliament (Speaker of the Seimas)
Lithuania Heads of State (She is also
Deputy Head of State) Female Presidents
of Parliaments from 2000 (Updates)
16.09.09 Japan Ministers
(New government) Montserrat Parties
(Updates)
14.09.09 Moldova Ministers
(Resignation of Prime Minister) Woman
Premier Ministers (Moldovan Prime Minister resigns)
Albania Ministers (Government
changes) South Korea (Government
changes)
09.09.09 Lebanon Ministers
(Designate Ministers) Bolivia Ministers
(Updates) Nicaragua Ministers (Updates)
Madagascar Ministers (Updates)
Woman Vice Premiers from 2000
(Madagascue Vice-Premier)
Dominican Republic Local Leaders (New governor)
05.09.09 Female
Presidential Candidates from 2000 (Updates)
El Salvador Local
(Updates)
03.09.09 Iran Ministers
(One woman appointed to the cabinet and 2 rejected (Unfortunately it is
not unusual with countries who don't have female ministers for decades.
Several countries only had one woman minister throughout their history -
in Burma the last was in office 51 years ago. And Iran has had a Female
Vice-President since 1997) (See
Situation in 2009))
31.08.09 Poland Ministers
(Updates) European Union (Updates)
Poland Local Leaders (Updates)
24.08.09
Nederlandse Antillen Local Leaders (Update St. Maarten)
Woman Local Premiers 1990 (Sarah
Wescott-Williams no longer Leader of the government of
St. Maarten)
17.08.09
Mauritania Ministers (Government changes)
Female Foreign Ministers (Mauritanian Foreign Minister)
16.08.09 Iran Ministers
(Two designate female ministers - the first since 1979)
08.08.09 Croatia Ministers
(Death of former Premier of Croatia,
Savka Dabčević-Kúčar)
Croatia Parliament (Updates)
Croatia Parties (Updates)
Grenada Ministers (Government change)
06.08.09
Netherlands Antillies Ministers (Government change)
Costa Rica Ministers (Government Changes)
Female Finance Ministers from 2000
(Costa Rican Finance Minister) Female
Presidential Candidates from 2000 (Updates)
05.08.09
Ecuador Local Leaders (Updates) USA Local
Leaders
(Updates - Secretaries of States and Assembly Speakers)
India Local Leaders (Updates - Assembly
Speakers)
01.08.09
Female Presidents
(Death of former President Cory Aquino of the Philippines)
31.07.09 Rwanda Ministers
(Government changes) United States of
America Government (Updates) Bulgaria
Ministers (Appointment of first Deputy Ministers)
Ecuador Local Leaders
(Governors)
23.07.09 Luxembourg
Ministers (Government changes (4 female and 11 male members))
Bulgaria Ministers
(Designate Government with 4 female and 12 male members)
Female Foreign Ministers (Designate
Bulgarian Foreign Minister)
Luxembourg Parliament (Updates)
20.07.09 India Local
Leaders (New governor) Female
Governors from 2005 (Margaret Alva is appointed Governor)
Female Presidents of Parliaments 1920-70
(Added photo of Violet Alva (1969))
17.07.09 Belgium Ministers
(Government changes) Female
Ministers of Interior, Home Affairs, Security, Civil Defence and Police
(Belgian Interior Minister) Belgium Local
Leaders (Updates to various Parliaments and Governments)
Female Presidential Candidates from 2000
(Updates) Angola Heads of State (New
information about the Kingdom of Kongo)
16.07.09 Romania Ministers
(Government changes)
Honduras Local Leaders (Sandra Hernández replaced by Ana Kilgore as
Governor of Cortés)
15.07.09
European Parliament
(Updates)
14.07.09 Bulgaria
Parliament (Tsetska Tsacheva is
elected new President) Female
Presidents of Parliaments from 2000 (New Bulgarian National Assembly
President) Malaysia Parliament
(First female Deputy Presiding Officer)
Belgium Local Leaders (New government in
Flanders and other updates)
13.07.09 Croatia Ministers
(New appointment)
12.07.09 Female Presidents
Dalia Grybauskaite takes office as President of Lithuania)
Peru Ministers (Government change)
Panamá Local Leaders (Updates)
Italy Substates (New information about
Sicily (1677)) Portugal Heads (New
information (1706)) Cambodia
Substates (New entry) Bulgaria Heads
of State 9 (New information (1398))
09.07.09 Latvia Ministers
(New Health Minister) Lithuania Ministers
(New Finance Minister) Female
Finance Ministers from 2000 (Lithuanian Finance Minister)
06.07.09 Woman
Premier Ministers (Jadranka Kosor takes office as Prime Minister of
Croatia)
05.07.09 Female
Governors from 2005 (Sarah Palin, resigns as Governor of Alaska one
year ahead of schedule)
02.07.09 Panama Ministers
(New government) Panama Parliament
(Updates) Argentina Ministers
(Government changes)
Switzerland Local Leaders (Updates to Obwalden)
01.07.09 Croatia Ministers
(Designate Prime Minister) Woman
Premier Ministers (Croatian Designate Prime Minister)
Cameroon Ministers
(Government changes)
30.06.09
Honduras Ministers (Government changes after
coup d'etat) Female Foreign Ministers
(Honduran Foreign Minister replaced)
Female Finance Ministers 1920-99
(New Finance Minister (See 1997))
Female Finance Ministers from 2000
(Replaces former Minster (see 2006))
Honduras Parliament (Acting
Congress President) Female Presidents
of Parliaments from 2000 (Ditto)
28.06.09 Maruritania
Ministers (Government changes)
27.06.09
Female Presidential Candidates from 2000 (Updates)
Rwanda Party Leaders
(Updates) Ukraine Parties (Updates)
24.06.09 Bermuda Ministers
(Government changes) France Ministers
(Government changes) Female
Ministers of Interior, Home Affairs, Security, Civil Defence and Police
(French Interior Minister moved to anothr minsitry)
19.06.09
Poland Parliament (New Vice-Marshal
of the Sejm) Urugay Ministers (Interior
Minister resigns)
Nouvelle Caledonie Ministers
(Portfolios allocated)
United Kingdom Ministers (Resignation
of Treasury Minister and appointment of a replacement)
18.06.09
Malawi Ministers (Government changes)
Female Foreign Ministers (Malawian
Foreign Minister replaced by another woman)
Greenland Parliament (Updates)
Gambia Ministers (New appointments)
Gambia Parliament (Updates)
Female Presidents of Parliaments from 2000
(Gambian Parliament Speaker replaced by another woman)
12.06.09
Croatia Local Leaders (Updates)
United Kingdom Local Leaders
(Updates) Female Governors from 2005
(Updates) India Parliament
(Updates)
10.06.09 Greenland Ministers
(New government with 4 women and 5 men)
United States of America Government (Further nominations)
09.06.09
Female Presidents in(Interim President of
Gabon) Gabon Ministers
(Ditto (see 1980s)) Andorra Ministers (New
government) United Kingdom Ministers
(Further changes) Greenland Parties
(New Chairperson of Siumut)
08.06.09
Ireland Ministers (Government change - number
of women down from from 5 to 4 out of a total of 30 government members)
Tonga (Government changes)
Ecuador Ministers (Government changes)
Liberia Ministers (Government changes)
Australia Ministers (Government Change -
with proportionally fewer women)
United Kingdom Ministers (Appointment
of Ministers of State) Japan Local Leaders
(Updates) Spain Local Leaders (Updates)
Female Governors from
2005 (New Japanese Governor and Spanish Government Delegate)
Moldova Parties (Updates)
New Zealand
Parties (Updates)
07.06.09
United Kingdom Ministers (Government
change underway) United Kingdoms
Cabinet (New cabinet with still fewer women members and a lot of
"semi-members"; Attending without full membership)
Nepal Ministers (Government beeing appointed)
India Ministers (Government changes)
Kuwait Ministers (Government change - from 2 to
1 female member) El Salvador Ministers
(New leftwing government with very few female members)
Nouvelle Caledonie Ministers
(Government Members appointed, portfolios yet to be allocated)
Female Foreign Ministers
(Elsalvadorian Minister replaced, new
austra
Nepalese minister)
Female Defence Ministers (New
Nepalese Minister)
Andorra Parliament (Updates)
India Parliament (New Speaker)
Cayman Islands Parliament
(New Speaker)
Female Presidents of Parliaments from
2000 (Indian and Cayman Speakers)
Switzerland Local Leaders
(New Parliament Presidents in Bern, Sankt Gallen and Thurgau)
Greenland Parties
21.05.09 Female
Presidential Candidates from 2000 (Updates)
20.05.09
Palestine Ministers
(Government changes) Ukraine Ministers
(Vera
Ulyanchenko becomes
Minister of the Presidency
) Ukraine Parties
(and
Leader of the People's Union Our
Ukraine)
Ukraine Local Leaders (She was
Governor of Kiev from 2009) Female
Governors from 2005 (Ditto)
19.05.09 Lithuania Ministers
(Former Finance Minister,
Dalia Grybauskaitė, is elected
president)
Lithuania Heads of State (She will
take office 12 July) Female Presidents
(Ditto) Iceland Parliament (All
6 vice-chairpersons and the Chairperson are women)
Madagascar Local Leaders (Updates)
Woman Local Premiers 1990 (Madagascar
Chiefs of Region)
11.05.09
Iceland Ministers (Government changes (5 women
and 7 men (previously there was 50% women)
Iceland Parliament (New Chairperson
of the Althing) Iceland Heads
(Updates)
10.05.09
Czech Republic Ministers
(New government) South Africa Ministers
(Government changes) South Africa
Heads of State
(Updates)
Female Defence Ministers (Czech Minister leaves office, and New
South African Minister appointed)
Female Foreign Ministers, (South African Foreign Minister since 1999
succeeded by another woman)
Female Defence Ministers (New South
African Defence Minister) Female
Ministers of Interior, Home Affairs, Security, Civil Defence and Police
(South African Home Affairs Minister since 2004 replaced by another
woman Israel Parliament (New
Deputy Speakers) Israel Parties (New
Kadima Parliamentary Leader)
)0.05.09
05.05.09
Turkish Republic of Northern
Cyprus (Government change)
Cyprus Tyrkish Republic
Parliament (Speaker leaves office)
04.05.09
Female Presidential Candidates from 2000
(Updates)
Senegal Ministers (Government changes)
Woman Vice Premiers from 2000
(Senegalese Deputy Head of Government)
03.05.09
Nepal Ministers (One the parties leaves
government)
Turkey Ministers (Government changes)
Switzerland Local Leaders
(Updates to Valais and Zürich)
01.05.09
Qatar Ministers (Updates)
South Africa Parliament
(Updates)
South Africa Parties (New ANC
Leaders)
South Africa Local Leaders (New
Premiers)
Woman Local Premiers 1990 (South African
Provincial Premiers and Swiss President of Cantonal Government)
Italy Substates (Updates to Napoli)
29.04.09
USA Cabinet (Kathleen Sibelius confirmed
as Health Secretary as last Cabinet Member)
United States of America Government
(Updates)
USA Local Leaders (Sibelius resigns as
Governor of Kansas)
Female Governors 2000-2005 (See 2003)
Indonesia Substates (Various
updates)
27.04.09
Female Representatives to
United Nations (Updates)
Guinea Bissau Substates (New
entry)
24.04.09
Ghana Ministers (Last appointments to the
government)
23.04.09
Andorra Heads (Personal
Representative of the French Co-Prince)
Women in power from 2000
(Ditto (see 2007))
19.04.09
Hungary Ministers (New government without
women)
Female Foreign Ministers (Hungarian
Minister replaced)
French Polynesia (Government change)
18.04.09
Venezuela Ministers (Government change)
Venezuela Local Leaders (Head of new
Capital District)
Brazil Local Leaders (Roseana
Maciera Sarney Murad who was Governor of Maranhão
1995-2002
takes office again)
Female Governors from 2005
(Jacqueline Faría Pineda is Head of the newly created Distrito Capital
(Caracas))
Female Governors 1990-2000 (See 1995)
17.04.09
Malaysia Ministers (Government changes)
United Kingdom Local Leaders
(Dame Mary Peter to succeed
Lady Romaine Carswell as Lord Lieutenant of Belfast)
Female Governors from 2005 (Updates)
16.04.09
Spain Local Leaders (Updates)
Female Governors from 2005 (Updates)
15.04.09
Spain Ministers (Further updates - new goverment
has got 9 women and 8 men plus the Prime Minister)
Mali Ministers (Government changes)
12.04.09
Niger Parliament (Updates)
Ecuador Local Leaders (New Governor)
Cyprus Parties (New Party Leader)
10.04.09
Spain Ministers (Government changes)
Woman Vice Premiers from 2000
(Second female Spanish Vice-Premier)
Female Finance Ministers from 2000
(who is also Minister of Finance and Economy)
Female Ministers of Interior, Home
Affairs, Security, Civil Defence and Police (Danish Interior
Minister)
07.04.09
List of Danish Female Ministers
(Government changes - 8 women and 11 male ministers - 42% women)
04.04.09
List of Danish Female Ministers
(Resignation of Minister (See 1993))
United States of America Government
(Updates)
31.03.09
Monaco Ministers (First female member
of government)
Female Finance Ministers from 2000
(Monasque Finance Minister)
Israel Ministers (New government)
Israel Parliament (Speaker replaced)
Female Presidents of Parliaments from 2000
(Ditto)
Female Foreign Ministers (Foreign
Minister replaced)
San Marino Heads (Captain General
leaves office)
Iceland Parties (Prime Minister
Johanna Sigurdardottir becomes Leader of the Social Democratic Alliance)
Women Bishops (Updates to "Other Christian
Churches")
29.03.09
Chad Ministers (Government changes)
Women Chairs of Parliaments
(Updates and adjustments to most entries)
26.03.09
Turks and Caicos Ministers
(Government changes)
Female Ministers of Interior, Home
Affairs, Security, Civil Defence and Police (Home Affairs Minister
replaced)
25.03.09
Liechtenstein Ministers (Government
change)
Female Foreign Ministers
(Liechtenstein's minister since 2005 replaced by another woman)
24.03.09
Woman Ministers and
Woman Heads of Government (Updates to most country entries)
22.03.09
Liberia Local Leaders (New
entry)
20.03.09
Danish Party Leaders
(Updates)
Liechtenstein Parliament (New
entry)
Liechtenstein Parties (Updates)
18.03.09
Russia Ministers (New
Agriculture Minister)
Madagascar Ministers (Government changes)
17.03.09
Antigua and Barbuda Ministers
(Government changes)
14.03.09
Chile Ministers (Government changes)
Chile Local Leaders (Updates)
Latvia Ministers (Government changes)
Female Ministers of Interior, Home
Affairs, Security, Civil Defence and Police (New Latvian Interior
Minister)
Nordic Council (New President and other
updates)
Female Presidents of Parliaments from 2000
(Various updates)
12.03.09
Female Representatives to United
Nations (Updates)
Women Bishops (Added new Bishop to Other
Christian Churches 2004)
05.03.09
Venezuela Ministers (Government
changes)
04.03.09
Balau/Palau Ministers (Government appointments)
Female Foreign Ministers (Palauan
Foreign Minister)
Peru Ministers
(New Interior Minister (see 1987))
Female Ministers of Interior, Home
Affairs, Security, Civil Defence and Police (Updates)
03.03.09
Cuba Ministers (Government changes)
Uganda Ministers (Government changes)
Female Finance Ministers from 2000
(Cuban and Ugandan Finance Minsiters)
Zimbabwe Ministers (Government changes)
Jordan Ministers (Government changes)
French Polynesia (Government changes)
United States of America Government (New
appointments)
Gabon Parliament (Updates)
Female Presidents of Parliaments from 2000
(Gabonese Senate President)
15.02.09
Turks and Caicos
Ministers Government Changes)
Woman Vice Premiers from 2000
(Turk-caicosian Deputy Premier)
14.02.09
Saudia Arabia Ministers (First female
Deputy Minister appointed (Leaving Monaco
as the only country in the world never to have had a female member of
government))
13.02.09
Zimbabwe Ministers (Government
changes)
Woman Vice Premiers from 2000
(Zimbabwian Deputy Prime Minister)
12.02.09
Bougainville (Updates)
French Polynesia Parliament
(Updates)
11.02.09
Zimbabwe Ministers (Designate Ministers)
Zimbabwe Local Leaders (Governors
removed from office)
Female Governors 2000-2005 (See 2003)
Female Governors from 2005 (See 2005)
Scotland Ministers (Government changes)
09.02.09
Madagascar Ministers (Defence
Minister resigns)
Female Defence Ministers (Ditto)
08.02.09
Woman Chiefs of Police
(Updates)
07.02.09
Woman Vice Presidential
Candidates from 2000 (Updates)
Malawi Parties (Updates)
02.02.09
Malawi Parliament (Updates)
Female Presidential Candidates from 2000
(Updates)
01.02.09
Iceland Ministers (New goverment with
5 female and 5 male members)
Woman Premier Ministers (Johanna
Sigurdardottir new Icelandic Prime Minister - as the first open
homosexual state leader in the world)
Burundi Ministers (Government change 9 women
and 17 men)
Female Finance Ministers from 2000
(New Burundian Ministers)
Female Foreign Ministers (Iceland's
Minister resigns, Burundi's is replaced and Honduras' takes office)
27.01.09
Iceland Ministers (Foreign Minister Ingibjorg
Solrun Gisladottir charged with the formation of a new government)
25.01.09
Ghana Ministers (Designated Members of
the new government)
Bangladesh Substates (New entry)
El Salvador Local (Updates)
23.01.09
Balau/Palau Ministers (Designate Appointments to
the Government)
Female Foreign Ministers (Designate
Palau Minister)
22.01.09
Female Foreign Ministers
(Hilary Rodham Clinton is US Secretary of State)
Female Ministers of Interior, Home
Affairs, Security, Civil Defence and Police (Janet Napolitano is US
Secretary of Homeland Security)
Female Governors from 2005 (New Governor
of Arizona)
USA Local Leaders (Updates)
20.01.09
United States of America Government
(Bush Administration leaves office)
USA Cabinet (Ditto)
19.01.09
Female Representatives to United
Nations (Updates)
Female Presidential Candidates from 2000
(Updates)
Female Finance Ministers from 2000
(Kyrgyz Minister replaced (see 2007)
18.01.09
Gabon Ministers (Government changes)
France Ministers (Minor government changes)
Women Bishops (New information added to "Other
Churches")
Female Representatives to United
Nations (Added information about Romanian Ambassador)
Representatives to Leauge of Nations
(Updated information about Romanian Representative)
15.01.09
Guinea Ministers (New government)
Czech Republic Ministers (Designate
changes)
Bangladesh Parties (Updates)
Women Bishops (New Lutheran Bishop - in UK)
12.01.09
Czech Republic Ministers
(Government changes)
Kyrgyzstan Ministers (Government changes)
Woman Vice Premiers from 2000 (New
Kyrgyz and Czech Deputy Premiers)
Poland Parties (New Party Leader)
11.01.09
Danish County Sheriffs
(Added more pictures)
10.01.09
Honduras Ministers (Designated
Foreign Minister)
Female Foreign Ministers (Honduran
Designated Minister)
Kyrgyzstan Ministers (Resignation of Deputy
Premier)
Woman Vice Premiers from 2000
(Updates)
Turks and Caicos Ministers
(Government change)
Bolivia Local (Updates)
Angola Parties (Death of Party Leader)
Honduras Parties (New entry)
Mali Heads of State (Corrected and new
information)
09.01.09
American Samoa Ministers
(Updates)
Greece Ministers (Update
(Fanni Palli-Petralia was reappointed to cabinet late 2007, and in a
reshuffle the government was expanded in 2009 - still 2 female
Ministers and 1 female Deputy Minister and now 15 male Ministers, 1 male
Alternate Minister and 25 male Deputy Ministers - 3 women and 41 men,
the lowest ratio of women in Europe -- and most of the world))
08.01.09
Guinea Bissau Ministers
(Government change)
Female Foreign Ministers (Guinea
Bissauan Foreign Minister since 2007 replaced by another woman)
Female Finance Ministers from 2000
(Guinea Bissauan Economy Minister)
France Local Leaders (Updates)
United Kingdom Local Leaders (2
new Lord Lieutenants)
Female Governors from 2005 (Updates and
new information)
Female Governors 1920-90 (New photos)
07.01.09
Ghana Parliament (New Speaker)
Female Presidents of Parliaments from 2000
(New Ghanese Speaker)
Woman Vice Premiers from 2000 (New
Bangladeshi Second in Cabinet)
Female Foreign Ministers (New
Bangladeshi Foreign Minsiter)
Female Ministers of Interior, Home
Affairs, Security, Civil Defence and Police (New Bangladeshi Home
Affairs Minister)
Female Defence Ministers (New
Bangladeshi Premier is also Defence Minister (see 1996))
Guinea Bissau Parliament
(Updates)
06.01.09
Bangladesh Ministers (New government with 5
women and 27 men)
Woman Premier Ministers (Sheik
Hasina Wajed takes office as Prime Minister of Bangladesh (see 1996))
Danish Party Leaders (Update)
03.01.09
Danish County Sheriffs
(Added new pictures)
Women in Power 1600-1800 (Various
new information, updates and pictures)
02.01.09
Germany Local Leaders (Vice-Premier of
Thüringen becomes Acting Premier)
Woman Local Premiers 1990 (Ditto)
Puerto Rico Ministers (Designated members
of the new administration)
Woman Premier Ministers of
External Territories (Secretary of State since 2005 leaves office)
Puerto Rico Parliament
(Designate Speaker of the House of Representatives)
Italy Ecclesiastical (Updates)
France Ecclestiastical
(Updates)
Ireland Ecclestiastical Territory
(New entry)
01.01.09
Palau Parliament (New
information)
30.12.08
Bangladesh Ministers (Sheik Hasina Wajed
wins election and is Prime Minister-elect)
Woman Premier Ministers (Sheik
Hasina designated to take office in the first week of January 2009)
Belgium Ministers (Government change)
Belgium Parliament (Acting
President of the Chamber of Deputies)
Female Presidents of Parliaments from 2000
(Belgian Acting Parliament President)
27.12.08
Switzerland Local Leaders
(President of Government of Schaffenhausen to take office 1. January
2009)
Woman Local Premiers 1990 (Swiss Canton
Government President)
21.12.08
Thailand Ministers (New government)
20.12.08
Romania Parliament
(Updates)
Female Presidents of Parliaments from 2000
(New President of the Romanian Chamber of Deputies)
Romania Parties (Updates)
USA Cabinet (All nomintaions filled (5
women and 11 men))
18.12.08
Nigeria Ministers (Government changes)
Chile Ministers (New appointment)
Ecuador Ministers (Foreign Minister resigns)
Female Foreign Ministers (Ditto)
Venezuela Local Leaders (New governor)
Female Governors from 2005 (Updates)
16.12.08
Jersey Ministers (Government change
(no female ministers, 6 female and 9 male Assistant Ministers))
Jersey Local (Updates)
United States of America Government
(Further appointments to the future administration)
15.12.08
Mongolia Ministers (Government change)
Female Foreign Ministers (Mongolian
Minister Replaced)
14.12.08
Netherlands Ministers (Government changes)
Argentina Ministers (Government changes)
New Zealand Parliament (Update
(No women in Parliamentary Leadership))
Czech Republic Local Leaders, (Updates)
Angola Local Leaders (2 new governors)
Chile Local Leaders (New Provincial
Governor)
Azerbaijan Local Leaders (Heads of
District Executives)
Belgium Parties (Updates)
11.12.08
Switzerland Ministers (Vice-President
elect to take office 1. January)
Female Vice-presidents (Swiss
Vice-President-elect)
10.12.08
Slovenia Ministers (New State Secretaries (6
women and 9 men))
08.12.08
Georgia Ministers (Government
changes)
Female Foreign Ministers (Georgian
Minister replaced)
Lithuania Ministers (Designate Minister)
Lithuania Parliament (Deputy
Speaker)
Female Defence Ministers (Lithuanian
Defence Minister)
03.12.08
San Marino Ministers (New government takes
office)
Female Foreign Ministers (San Marino
Foreign Minister)
Woman Premier Ministers(San Marino
Government Leader)
02.12.08
Venezuela Local Leaders (New Governor)
01.12.2008
United States of America Government
(New appointments to the government)
Female Foreign Ministers (Hilary
Clinton Designated as US Secretary of State)
Female Ministers of Interior, Home
Affairs, Security, Civil Defence and Police (Janet Napolitano
Designated as Secretary of Homeland Security)
Female Representatives to United
Nations (Susan Rice as US Ambassador to the United Nations)
USA Local Leaders (Designate Governor of
Arizona as successor of Janet Napolitano)
Female Governors from 2005 (Janet Bewer
Designat Arizona Governor and other updates)
Switzerland Parliament (New
President and Vice-Presidents)
Female Presidents of Parliaments from 2000
(New President of the Swiss National Council)
29.11.08
Honduras Local Leaders (Updates)
28.11.08
Nepal Parliament (Vice-Chair of the
Constituent Assembly)
Austria Parties (New ÖVP Vice-Chairs
(see 1994 and 2008))
27.11.08
Czech Republic Local Leaders (New
Governor)
Female Governors from 2005 (Czech
Governor)
26.11.08
France Parties (Martine Aubry
defeats Ségolène Royal as leader of the Socialists)
Canada Parliament (New Deputy
Presiding Officer of the House of Commons)
25.11.08
Austria Ministers (New government)
Female Foreign Ministers (Austrian
Minister resigns)
United States of America Government
(Further designations to the future government)
Female Finance Ministers from 2000
(Designate Chairperson of the Council of Economic Advisors in USA)
USA Local Leaders (Updates)
Female Governors from 2005 (Designate
Governor of New Mexico)
24.11.08
San Marino Ministers (Designate Secretary
of Foreign and Political Affairs (And government leader)
23.11.08
Dominica Ministers (Government
changes)
Barbados Ministers (Government changes)
Female Foreign Ministers (New
Barbadian Foreign Minister)
Princess-Abbesses (Updates)
19.11.08
Zambia Ministers (Government changes)
New Zealand Ministers (New government with
8 women and 20 men)
Female Ministers of Interior, Home
Affairs, Security, Civil Defence and Police (Newzealandian Police
Minister)
Female Defence Ministers (New
Newzealandian Veteran, Disarmament and Associate Defence Ministers)
Woman Premier Ministers (Helen Clark
leaves office as Prime Minister of New Zealand)
France_Parliament (Updates)
17.11.08
Saint Lucia Parliament
(Change of House Speaker and Senate President)
Female Presidents of Parliaments from 2000
(Ditto)
16.11.08
United States of America Government
(Updates)
Slovenia Parties (New Party Leader)
New Zealand Parties (Updates)
15.11.08
Canada Local Leaders
(Eva Aariak elected Premier of Nunavut)
Woman Local Premiers 1990 (Ditto)
Germany Ecclesiastical Territories
(New information about the Chapter Wald)
France Ecclestiastical (New
information about the Royal Abbey of Jouarre)
12.11.08
Germany Ministers (New Agriculture
Minister (7 women and 9 men))
Slovenia Ministers (New Government)
Female Ministers of Interior, Home
Affairs, Security, Civil Defence and Police (Slovene Interior
Minister)
Female Defence Ministers (Slovene
Defence Minister)
Czech Republic Local Leaders (Designate
Governor)
Female Governors from 2005 (Czech
designate governor)
11.11.08
Maldives Ministers (New government)
New Zealand Parties
(Helen Clark resigns as Labour Leader and a Annette King is new female
Deputy Leader)
09.11.08
France Ecclestiastical
(Added new information about Bourbourg)
08.11.08
Canada Ministers (Government
changes)
Female Governors from 2005 (Updates)
05.11.08
USA Local Leaders (Beverly Perdue
won governorship of North Carolina, Gaye Symington lost in Vermont and
Jill Long Thomson in Indiana)
Female Presidential Candidates from 2000
(Updates)
Woman Vice Presidential Candidates
from 2000 (Updates)
03.11.08
Georgia Ministers (Government
changes)
Ethiopia Ministers (Government changes)
Malawi Parties (New entry)
Woman Vice Presidential Candidates
from 2000 (Updates)
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