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Sirimavo Bandaranaikewas the first female prime minister in the world.
Bandaranaike was Prime Minister of Sri Lanka three times beginning in 1960 following the assassination of her husband, Solomon Bandaranaike, while he was the Prime Minister. She was PM from July 21, 1960 - March 27, 1965, from May 29, 1970- July 23, 1977 and from Nov. 14, 1994- August 10, 2000. She died in 2000.
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Bandaranaike was Prime Minister of Sri Lanka three times beginning in 1960 following the assassination of her husband, Solomon Bandaranaike, while he was the Prime Minister. She was PM from July 21, 1960 - March 27, 1965, from May 29, 1970- July 23, 1977 and from Nov. 14, 1994- August 10, 2000. She died in 2000. She received her third government mandate from her own daughter Chandrika Kumaratunga who was to be sworn in as president by then. This was the first time in history that a woman succeeded another woman by elections.
She was followed by:
Indira Gandhi,
Prime minister of India from 19 Jan 1966 to 24 Mar 1977, and from 14 Jan 1980 to 31 Oct 1984
Golda Meir, Prime minister of Israel from 17 Mar 1969 to 3 Jun 1974.
Elisabeth Domitien,
Prime minister of the Central African Republic from 3 Jan 1975 to 7 Apr 1976
Margaret Thatcher,
Prime minister of the United Kingdom from 4 May 1979 to 28 Nov 1990
Maria de Lourdes Pintasilgo,
Prime minister of Portugal from 1 Aug 1979 to 3 Jan 1980
Mary Eugenia Charles,
Prime minister of Dominica from 21 Jul 1980 to 14 Jun 1995
Gro Harlem Brundtland,
Prime minister of Norway from 4 Feb to 14 Oct 1981, from 9 May 1986 to 16 Oct 1989,
and from 3 Nov 1990 to 25 Oct 1996
Milka Planinc,
Federal prime minister of the former Socialist Yugoslavia from 16 May 1982 to 15 May 1986
Benazir Bhutto,
Prime Minister of Pakistan from 2 Dec 1988 to 6 Aug 1990, and again from 19 Oct 1993 to 5 Nov 1996
Kazimiera Prunskiene,
Prime minister of Lithuania from 17 Mar 1990 to 10 Jan 1991
Khaleda Zia,
Prime minister of Bangladesh from 20 Mar 1991 to 30 Mar 1996, and from 10 Oct 2001 to 29 Oct 2006
Edith Cresson, Prime minister of France from 15 May 1991 to 2 Apr 1992
Hanna Suchocka, Prime minister of Poland from 8 Jul 1992 to 26 Oct 1993
Kim Campbell, Prime minister of Canada from 25 Jun to 5 Nov 1993
Tansu Çiller, Prime minister of Turkey from 25 Jun 1993 to 7 Mar 1996
Sylvie Kinigi, Prime minister of Burundi from 10 Jul 1993 to 11 Feb 1994
Agathe Uwilingiyimana,
Prime minister of Rwanda from 18 Jul 1993 to her killing on 7 Apr 1994
Chandrika Kumaratunga, Prime minister of Sri Lanka from 19 Aug to Nov 1994
Reneta Indzhova, Interim prime minister of Bulgaria from 16 Oct 1994 to 25 Jan 1995
Claudette Werleigh, Prime minister of Haiti from 7 Nov 1995 to 27 Feb 1996
Sheikh Hasina Wajed,
Prime minister of Bangladesh from 23 Jun 1996 to 15 Jul 2001, and since 6 Jan 2009
Janet Jagan, Prime minister of Guyana from 17 Mar 1997 to December 19, 1997
Jenny Shipley, Prime minister of New Zealand from 8 Dec 1997 to 10 Dec 1999
Irena Degutiene,
Acting prime minister of Lithuania from 4 to 18 May 1999, and from 27 Oct to 3 Nov 1999
Nyam-Osoriyn Tuyaa, Acting prime minister of Mongolia from 22 to 30 Jul 1999
Helen Elizabeth Clark, Prime minister of New Zealand from 10 Dec 1999 to 19 Nov 2008
Mame Madior Boye, Prime minister of Senegal from 3 Mar 2001 to 4 Nov 2002
Chang Sang,
Acting Prime minister of South Korea in 2002, from 11 Jul by appointment of president Kim Dae Jung,
to 31 Jul when the Parliament rejected her
Maria das Neves Ceita Baptista de Sousa,
Prime minister of São Tomé and Príncipe from 7 Oct 2002 to 16 Jul 2003
Anneli Tuulikki Jäätteenmäki,
Prime minister of Finland from 17 Apr to 24 Jun 2003
Beatriz Merino Lucero, Prime minister of Peru from 28 Jun to 15 Dec 2003
Luísa Dias Diogo, Prime minister of Mozambique from 17 Feb 2004 to 18 Jan 2010
Radmila Sekerinska,
Acting prime minister of Macedonia twice in 2004, from 12 May to 12 Jun,
and from 18 Nov to 17 Dec
Yuliya Tymoshenko,
Prime minister of Ukraine from 24 Jan to 8 Sep 2005, and from 18 Dec 2007 to 3 Mar 2010
Maria do Carmo Silveira,
Prime minister of São Tomé and Príncipe from 8 Jun 2005 to 21 Apr 2006
Angela Merkel, Federal Chancellor of Germany from 22 Nov 2005
Portia Simpson-Miller, Prime Minister of Jamaica from 30 Mar 2006 to 11 Sep 2007
Han Myung Sook, Prime minister of South Korea from 19 Apr 2006 to 7 Mar 2007
Zinaida Greceanii, Prime minister of Moldova from 31 Mar 2008 to 14 Sep 2009
Michèle Pierre-Louis, Prime minister of Haiti from 5 Sep 2008 to 11 Nov 2009
Jóhanna Sigurdardóttir, Prime minister of Iceland since 1 Feb 2009
Jadranka Kosor, Prime minister of Croatia since 6 Jul 2009
Cécile Manorohanta, Prime minister of Madagascar from 18 to 20 Dec 2009
Roza Otunbayeva,
Head of the interim Government of Kyrgyzstan from 7 Apr to 19 May 2010,
then interim president of the Republic
Kamla Persad-Bissessar, Prime minister of Trinidad and Tobago since 26 May 2010
Mari Kiviniemi, Prime minister of Finland from 22 Jun 2010 to 22 Jun 2011
Julia Gillard, Prime minister of Australia since 24 Jun 2010
Iveta Radicová, Prime minister of Slovakia since 8 Jul 2010
Rosario Fernández Figueroa, Prime minister of Peru from 19 Mar 2011 to 28 Jul 2011
Cissé Mariam Kaïdama Sidibé, Prime minister of Mali from 3 Apr 2011
Yingluck Shinawatra, Prime minister of Thailand from 8 Aug 2011.
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In 1967 she became the prime minister of Croatia, giving her the distinction of being Europe's first female prime minister.
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