Here is a partial listing of female heads of state since 1900:
Corazon Aquino - Philippines
Sirimavo Bandaranaike - Sri Lanka
Agatha Barbara - Mali
Benazir Bhutto - Pakistan
Gro Harlem Brundtland - Norway
Eugenia Charles - Dominica
Vigdis Finbogadottir - Iceland
Indira Gandhi - India
Golda Meir - Israel
Margaret Thatcher - Great Britain
Kim Campbell - Canada
Violeta Barrios de Chamorro - Nicaragua
Tansu Ciller - Turkey
Pamela Gordon - Bermuda
Sylvie Kinigi - Burundi
Chandrika Kumaratunge - Sri Lanka (her mother was the first female prime minister in the world)
Jenny Shipley - New Zealand
Jennifer M. Smith - Bermuda
Hanna Suchocka - Poland
Aung San Suu Kyi - Myanmar (Burma)
Agathe Uwilingiyimana - Rwanda
Vaira Vike-Freiberga - Latvia
Michelle Bachelet - Chile
Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner - Argentina
Julia Gillard - Australia
Mary Robinson - Ireland
Mary McAleese - Ireland
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf - Liberia
Angela Merkel - Germany
Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf - Switzerland (one of several female Swiss heads of state)
... and the list goes on.
Notably missing from this list is that bastion of democracy and freedom, the United States of America, where in 2012, part of the dialog of the presidential campaign is whether or not the use of contraception is of the devil, and whether women should have access to medical care and counseling regarding reproductive health .
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