In 1960, Sri Lanka – known then as Ceylon – elected its first female prime minister, Sirimavo Bandaranaike. She entered politics after her husband was assassinated while serving as prime minister.

List of all Prime Ministers of India: Did you know that Jawaharlal Nehru, India’s first Prime Minister, served for 17 years, the longest by any PM? The Prime Minister of India is the head of the ...

Three ministers from the previous administration led by Michel Barnier will retain their positions, including Bruno Retailleau as interior minister, Sebastian Lecornu as minister of armed forces, and ...

Iceland has both a female president and a female prime minister for the first time, after Kristrun Frostadottir was appointed prime minister. Frostadottir, the head of the center-left Social ...

The first continent with a UN member state to have a female leader after WWII was Asia. In 1960, Sri Lanka – known then as Ceylon – elected its first female prime minister, Sirimavo Bandaranaike. She ...

The 36-year-old Social Democrat Kristrún Frostadóttir will be the new Prime Minister of Iceland. This was announced by the leader of the Social Democratic Alliance and the party leaders of her ...

A conservative Lutheran church in Norway will ordain its first female ministers in January, joining the growing number of Protestant churches around the world that accept the leadership of women. A ...

Cumulative number of ministerial resignations in governments of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 2022 ...