NOT IN AMERICA

From Lynette Long

http://www.lynettelong.com/my_weblog/2008/10/not-in-america.html

Someone sent me this list of women leaders from around the world. Thanks.  We need to remember it is possible here too and keep fighting.

Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, India

Minister President Golda Meïr, Israel

Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, United Kingdom of Great Britain

Federal Chancellor Angela Merkel, Germany

Prime Minister Sirimavo Ratwatte Dias Bandaranaike, Sri Lanka

Cristina E. Fernández Wilhelm de Kirchner, Argentina

President Pratibha Patil, India

Acting President Dalia Itzik, Israel

President of the Confederation Micheline Calmy-Rey, Switzerland

Executive President Michelle Bachelet Jeria, Chile

Executive President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, Liberia

Capitano Reggente Fausta Simona Morganti, San Marino

Acting Joint Head of State Barbara Prammer, Austria

Capitano Reggente Valeria Ciavatta, San Marino

Acting President Natasa Micic, Serbia 

Executive President Megawati Sukarnoputri, Indonesia

Executive President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, The Philippines

Capitano Reggente Maria Domenica Michelotti, San Marino

President Tarja Halonen, Finland

Executive President Mireya Moscoso Rodrígez, Panama

President Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga, Latvia

President of the Confederation Ruth Dreifuss, Switzerland

Executive President Janet Jagan, Guyana

President Mary McAleese, Ireland

Acting Executive President Rosalia Arteaga Serrano de Fernández de Córdova, Ecuador

Chairman of the Council of State Ruth Sando Perry, Liberia

Acting Head of State Sylvie Kinigi, Burundi

President Mary Robinson, Ireland

Executive President Violeta Barrios de Chamorro, Nicaragua

Acting Head of State Dr. Sabine Bergmann-Pohl, East-Germany

Acting President Ertha Pascal-Trouillot, Haiti

Executive President Maria Corazón Sumulong Cojuangco Aquino, The Philippines 

Acting Head of State Carmen Pereira, Guinea Bissau

President Agatha Barbara, Malta

President Vigdís Finnbogadóttir, Iceland

Interim Executive President Lydia Gueiler Tejada, Bolivia

Executive President Maria Estella Martínez Cartas de Perón, Argentina

Acting Head of State Song Qingling, China

Acting Head of State Sühbaataryn Yanjmaa, Mongolia

Head of State Khertek Anchimaa-Toka, People’s Republic of Tannu Tuva

Prime Minister Michèle Pierre-Louis, Haiti

Acting President of the Executive Council Marthe Ogoundélé-Tessi, St-Martin

Prime Minister Zinaida Grecianîi, Moldova

Premier Viveca Eriksson, Åland (Finish External Territory)

Prime Minister Han Myung-sook, South Korea

Prime Minister Portia Simpson-Miller, Jamaica

Minister President Emily de Jongh-Elhage, Nederlandse Antillen (Self-governing Part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands)

Executive President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, Liberia

Prime Minister Maria do Carmo Trovoada Pires de Carvalho Silveira, São Tomé e Princípe

Acting Prime Minister Cynthia A. Pratt, The Bahamas

Prime Minister Yuliya Tymoshenko, Ukraine

Minister President Suzanne Camelia-Römer, Nederlandse Antillen 

Premier Ministre Sylvie Kinigi, Burundi

Prime Minister A. Kim Campbell, Canada

Minister President Tansu Çiller, Turkey

Premier Marita Petersen, The Faeroe Islands

Acting President of the Government Radmila Sekerinska, Macedonia

Prime Minister Luísa Días Diogo, Moçambique

Minister-President Mirna Louisa-Godett, Nederlandse Antillen (Self Governing External Territory of The Netherlands)

President of the Council of Ministers Dr. Beatriz Merino Lucero, Peru

Premier Ministre Mame Madior Boye, Sénégal

Prime Minister Helen Clark, New Zealand

Federal President Ruth Dreifuss, Switzerland

Premier Jennifer Meridith Smith, Bermuda

Acting Prime Minister Anne Enger Lahnstein, Norway

Premier Pamela Felicity Gordon, Bermuda

Prime Minister Jenny Shipley, New Zealand

President Mary McAleese, Ireland

Prime Minister Janet Jagan, Guyana

Acting Executive President Rosalia Arteaga Serrano de Fernández de Córdova, Ecuador

Interim Minister President Reneta Ivanova Indzhova, Bulgaria

Minister Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga, Sri Lanka

Minister President Hanna Suchocka, Poland

Premier Minister Claudette Werleigh, Haïti

Executive President Violeta Barrios de Chamorro, Nicaragua

Acting Head of State Dr. Sabine Bergmann-Pohl, East-Germany

Minister President Kasimiera Prunskienė, Lithuania

Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, Pakistan

Prime Minister Princess Stella Margaret Nomzamo Sigcau, Transkei

Acting Head of State Carmen Pereira, Guinea Bissau

Chairperson of the Council of Ministers Milka Planinc, Yugoslavia

Prime Minister Dame M. Eugenia Charles, Dominica

Premierministre Élisabeth Domitién, Central African Republic

Queen Elizabeth, Queen Victoria, Cleopatra, and on and on