Hillary Clinton is one step closer to becoming the first woman to lead the United States. But there are 60 other countries that beat America to that milestone.
Hillary Clinton made history this spring, as the first female presidential candidate of a major U.S. political party. While this is a historic moment for the US, more than 70 countries have had a woman holding the position of president or prime minister, many of those in Europe and Asia.
1960s
1) Sri Lanka
Sirimavo Bandaranaike, 1960
2) India
Indira Gandhi, 1966
3) Israel
Golda Meir, 1969
1970s
4) Argentina
Isabel Perón, 1974
5) Central African Republic
Elisabeth Domitien, 1975
6) Portugal
Maria de Lourdes Pintasilgo, 1979
7) United Kingdom
Margaret Thatcher, 1979
1980s
8) Dominica
Eugenia Charles, 1980
9) Iceland
Vigdís Finnbogadóttir, 1980
10) Norway
Gro Harlem Brundtland, 1981
11) Malta
Agatha Barbara, 1982
12) Philippines
Corazon Aquino, 1986
13) Pakistan
Benazir Bhutto, 1988
1990s
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14) Ireland
Mary Robinson, 1990
15) Lithuania
Kazimira Danutė Prunskienė, 1990
16) Nicaragua
Violeta Barrios Torres de Chamorro, 1990
17) Bangladesh
Khaleda Zia, 1991
18) France
Édith Cresson, 1991
19) Poland
Hanna Suchocka, 1992
20) Burundi
Sylvie Kinigi, 1993
21) Canada
Kim Campbell, 1993
22) Rwanda
Agathe Uwilingiyimana, 1993
23) Turkey
Tansu Çiller, 1993
24) Haiti
Claudette Werleigh, 1995
25) Guyana
Janet Rosenberg, 1997
26) New Zealand
Jenny Shipley, 1997
27) Latvia
Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga, 1999
28) Panama
Mireya Elisa Moscoso Rodríguez, 1999
29) Switzerland
Ruth Dreifuss, 1999
2000s
30) Finland
Tarja Halonen, 2001
31) Indonesia
Megawati Sukarnoputri, 2001
32) Senegal
Mame Madior Boye, 2001
33) São Tomé and Príncipe
Maria das Neves, 2002
34) Peru
Beatriz Merino, 2003
35) Macedonia
Radmila Šekerinska, 2004
36) Mozambique
Luísa Diogo, 2004
37) Germany
Angela Merkel, 2005
38) Ukraine
Yulia Tymoshenko, 2005
39) Chile
Michelle Bachelet, 2006
40) Jamaica
Portia Simpson-Miller, 2006
41) Liberia
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, 2006
42) South Korea
Han Myung-sook, 2006
43) Moldova
Zinaida Greceanîi, 2008
44) Croatia
Jadranka Kosor, 2009
2010s
45) Australia
Julia Gillard, 2010
46) Costa Rica
Laura Chinchilla, 2010
47) Kyrgyzstan
Roza Otunbayeva, 2010
48) Slovakia
Iveta Radičová, 2010
49) Trinidad and Tobago
Kamla Persad-Bissessar, 2010
50) Denmark
Helle Thorning-Schmidt, 2011
51) Kosovo
Atifete Jahjaga, 2011
52) Mali
Cissé Mariam Kaïdama Sidibé, 2011
53) Thailand
Yingluck Shinawatra, 2011
54) Malawi
Joyce Banda, 2012
55) Slovenia
Alenka Bratušek, 2013
56) Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus**
Sibel Siber, 2013
57) Brazil
Dilma Rousseff, 2014
58) Mauritius
Ameenah Firdaus Gurib-Fakim, 2015
59) Namibia
Saara Kuugongelwa-Amadhila, 2015
60) Nepal
Bidya Devi Bhandari, 2015
Courtesy: CNN
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