List of female premiers in Australia
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| Name | Image | Province or territory | Party | Mandate start | Mandate end | Term length |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dr Carmen Lawrence |  |
 Western Australia |
Australian Labor Party | 12 February 1990 | 16 February 1993 | 3 years, 4 days |
| Joan Kirner |  |
 Victoria |
Australian Labor Party | 10 August 1990 | 6 October 1992 | 2 years, 57 days |
| Anna Bligh |  |
 Queensland |
Australian Labor Party | 13 September 2007 | 26 March 2012 | 4 years, 185 days |
| Kristina Keneally |  |
 New South Wales |
Australian Labor Party | 4 December 2009 | 28 March 2011 | 1 year, 114 days |
| Julia Gillard |  |
 Australia (federal) |
Australian Labor Party | 24 June 2010 | 27 June 2013 | 3 years, 3 days |
| Lara Giddings |  |
 Tasmania |
Australian Labor Party | 24 January 2011 | 31 March 2014 | 3 years, 66 days |
| Annastacia Palaszczuk | |
Queensland |
Australian Labor Party | 14 February 2015 | Incumbent | 11 years, 113 days |
List of List of elected or appointed female heads of state
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| Name | Image | Country | Office | Mandate start | Mandate end | Term length |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Khertek Anchimaa-Toka |  Tannu Tuva |
Chairperson of the Presidium of the Little Khural | 6 April 1940 | 11 October 1944 | 4 years, 188 days | |
| Sükhbaataryn Yanjmaa |  |
 Mongolia |
Acting Chairperson of the Presidium of the State Great Khural | 7 September 1953 | 7 July 1954 | 303 days |
| Soong Ching-ling |  |
 China |
Acting Co-Chairperson | 31 October 1968 | 24 April 1972 | 3 years, 176 days |
| Isabel Martínez de Perón |  |
 Argentina |
President | 1 July 1974 | 24 March 1976 | 1 year, 267 days |
| Lidia Gueiler Tejada | |
 Bolivia |
Acting President | 16 November 1979 | 17 July 1980 | 244 days |
| Vigdís Finnbogadóttir | .jpg) |
 Iceland |
President | 1 August 1980 | 1 August 1996 | 16 years, 0 days |
| Maria Lea Pedini-Angelini | |
 San Marino |
Captain Regent | 1 April 1981 | 1 October 1981 | 183 days |
| Soong Ching-ling | |
China |
Honorary President | 16 May 1981 | 28 May 1981 | 12 days |
| Agatha Barbara |  |
 Malta |
President | 15 February 1982 | 15 February 1987 | 5 years, 0 days |
| Gloriana Ranocchini | |
San Marino |
Captain Regent | 1 April 1984 | 1 October 1984 | 183 days |
| Carmen Pereira | |
 Guinea-Bissau |
Acting President of Guinea-Bissau | 14 May 1984 | 16 May 1984 | 2 days |
| Elisabeth Kopp |  |
 Switzerland |
Member of the Swiss Federal Council | 21 October 1984 | 12 January 1989 | 4 years, 83 days |
| Corazon Aquino |  |
 Philippines |
President | 25 February 1986 | 30 June 1992 | 6 years, 126 days |
| Gloriana Ranocchini | |
San Marino |
Captain Regent | 1 October 1989 | 1 April 1990 | 182 days |
| Ertha Pascal-Trouillot | |
 Haiti |
Acting President | 13 March 1990 | 7 February 1991 | 331 days |
| Sabine Bergmann-Pohl |  |
 East Germany |
President of the People's Chamber | 5 April 1990 | 2 October 1990 | 180 days |
| Violeta Chamorro |  |
 Nicaragua |
President | 25 April 1990 | 10 January 1997 | 6 years, 260 days |
| Mary Robinson |  |
 Ireland |
President | 3 December 1990 | 12 September 1997 | 6 years, 283 days |
| Edda Ceccoli | |
San Marino |
Captain Regent | 1 October 1991 | 1 April 1992 | 183 days |
| Ruth Dreifuss | .jpg) |
Switzerland |
Member of the Swiss Federal Council | 1 April 1993 | 31 December 2002 | 9 years, 296 days |
| Patrizia Busignani | |
San Marino |
Captain Regent | 1 April 1993 | 1 October 1993 | 183 days |
| Sylvie Kinigi | |
 Burundi |
Acting President | 27 October 1993 | 5 February 1994 | 101 days |
| Chandrika Kumaratunga |  Sri Lanka |
President | 12 November 1994 | 19 November 2005 | 11 years, 17 days | |
| Ruth Perry | |
 Liberia |
Chairperson of the Council of State | 3 September 1996 | 2 August 1997 | 333 days |
| Rosalía Arteaga Serrano |  |
 Ecuador |
Acting President | 9 February 1997 | 11 February 1997 | 2 days |
| Mary McAleese |  |
Ireland |
President | 11 November 1997 | 10 November 2011 | 13 years, 364 days |
| Janet Jagan |  |
 Guyana |
President | 19 December 1997 | 11 August 1999 | 1 year, 235 days |
| Ruth Metzler-Arnold |  |
Switzerland |
Member of the Swiss Federal Council | 1 January 1999 | 31 December 2003 | 4 years, 364 days |
| Rosa Zafferani | |
San Marino |
Captain Regent | 1 April 1999 | 1 October 1999 | 183 days |
| Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga | .jpg) |
 Latvia |
President | 8 July 1999 | 8 July 2007 | 8 years, 0 days |
| Mireya Moscoso |  |
 Panama |
President | 1 September 1999 | 1 September 2004 | 5 years, 0 days |
| Tarja Halonen |  |
 Finland |
President | 1 March 2000 | 1 March 2012 | 12 years, 0 days |
| Maria Domenica Michelotti | |
San Marino |
Captain Regent | 1 April 2000 | 1 October 2000 | 183 days |
| Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo |  |
Philippines |
President | 20 January 2001 | 30 June 2010 | 9 years, 161 days |
| Megawati Sukarnoputri |  |
 Indonesia |
President | 23 July 2001 | 20 October 2004 | 3 years, 89 days |
| Micheline Calmy-Rey |  |
Switzerland |
Member of the Swiss Federal Council | 1 January 2003 | 31 December 2011 | 8 years, 364 days |
| Valeria Ciavatta | |
San Marino |
Captain Regent | 1 October 2003 | 1 April 2004 | 183 days |
| Nino Burjanadze | .jpg) |
 Georgia |
Acting President | 23 November 2003 | 25 January 2004 | 63 days |
| Fausta Morganti | |
San Marino |
Captain Regent | 1 April 2005 | 1 October 2005 | 183 days |
| Ellen Johnson Sirleaf |  |
Liberia |
President | 16 January 2006 | Incumbent | 20 years, 142 days |
| Michelle Bachelet |  |
 Chile |
President | 11 March 2006 | 11 March 2010 | 4 years, 0 days |
| Doris Leuthard |  |
Switzerland |
Member of the Swiss Federal Council | 1 August 2006 | Incumbent | 19 years, 310 days |
| Dalia Itzik |  |
 Israel |
Acting President | 25 January 2007 | 15 July 2007 | 171 days |
| Pratibha Patil |  |
 India |
President | 25 July 2007 | 25 July 2012 | 5 years, 0 days |
| Nino Burjanadze | |
Georgia |
Acting President | 25 November 2007 | 20 January 2008 | 56 days |
| Cristina Fernández de Kirchner |  |
Argentina |
President | 10 December 2007 | Incumbent | 18 years, 179 days |
| Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf |  |
Switzerland |
Member of the Swiss Federal Council | 1 January 2008 | Incumbent | 18 years, 157 days |
| Rosa Zafferani | |
San Marino |
Captain Regent | 1 April 2008 | 1 October 2008 | 183 days |
| Assunta Meloni | |
San Marino |
Captain Regent | 1 October 2008 | 1 April 2009 | 182 days |
| Rose Francine Rogombé | |
 Gabon |
Acting President | 10 June 2009 | 16 October 2009 | 128 days |
| Dalia Grybauskaitė |  |
 Lithuania |
President | 12 July 2009 | Incumbent | 16 years, 330 days |
| Roza Otunbayeva |  |
 Kyrgyzstan |
President | 7 April 2010 | 1 December 2011 | 1 year, 238 days |
| Laura Chinchilla |  |
 Costa Rica |
President | 8 May 2010 | 8 May 2014 | 4 years, 0 days |
| Simonetta Sommaruga |  |
Switzerland |
Member of the Swiss Federal Council | 1 November 2010 | Incumbent | 15 years, 218 days |
| Dilma Rousseff |  |
 Brazil |
President | 1 January 2011 | Incumbent | 15 years, 157 days |
| Maria Luisa Berti | |
San Marino |
Captain Regent | 1 April 2011 | 1 October 2011 | 183 days |
| Atifete Jahjaga |  |
 Kosovo |
President | 7 April 2011 | Incumbent | 15 years, 61 days |
| Monique Ohsan Bellepeau | |
 Mauritius |
Acting President | 31 March 2012 | 21 July 2012 | 112 days |
| Slavica Đukić Dejanović |  |
 Serbia |
Acting President | 5 April 2012 | 31 May 2012 | 56 days |
| Joyce Banda | .jpg) |
 Malawi |
President | 7 April 2012 | 31 May 2014 | 2 years, 54 days |
| Denise Bronzetti | |
San Marino |
Captain Regent | 1 October 2012 | 1 April 2013 | 182 days |
| Park Geun-hye | _(cropped).jpg) |
 South Korea |
President | 25 February 2013 | Incumbent | 13 years, 102 days |
| Antonella Mularoni |  |
San Marino |
Captain Regent | 1 April 2013 | 1 October 2013 | 183 days |
| Anna Maria Muccioli | |
San Marino |
Captain Regent | 1 October 2013 | 1 April 2014 | 182 days |
| Catherine Samba-Panza |  |
 Central African Republic |
Acting President | 23 January 2014 | Incumbent | 12 years, 135 days |
| Michelle Bachelet | |
Chile |
President | 11 March 2014 | Incumbent | 12 years, 88 days |
| Valeria Ciavatta | |
San Marino |
Captain Regent | 1 April 2014 | 1 October 2014 | 183 days |
| Marie Louise Coleiro Preca | |
Malta |
President | 4 April 2014 | Incumbent | 12 years, 64 days |
| Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović |  |
 Croatia |
President | 19 February 2015 | Incumbent | 11 years, 108 days |
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| Name | Image | Country | Office | Mandate start | Mandate end | Term length |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sirimavo Bandaranaike | _(Hon.Sirimavo_Bandaranaike_with_Hon.Lalith_Athulathmudali_Crop).jpg) |
 Ceylon |
Prime Minister | 21 July 1960 | 27 March 1965 | 4 years, 249 days |
| Indira Gandhi |  |
India |
Prime Minister | 24 January 1966 | 24 April 1977 | 11 years, 90 days |
| Golda Meir |  |
Israel |
Prime Minister | 17 March 1969 | 3 June 1974 | 5 years, 78 days |
| Sirimavo Bandaranaike | |
Ceylon |
Prime Minister | 29 May 1970 | 22 May 1972 | 1 year, 359 days |
| Sirimavo Bandaranaike | |
Sri Lanka |
Prime Minister | 22 May 1972 | 23 July 1977 | 5 years, 62 days |
| Elisabeth Domitien | |
Central African Republic |
Prime Minister | 2 January 1975 | 7 April 1976 | 1 year, 96 days |
| Margaret Thatcher |  |
 United Kingdom |
Prime Minister | 4 May 1979 | 28 November 1990 | 11 years, 208 days |
| Maria de Lourdes Pintasilgo |  Portugal |
Prime Minister | 1 July 1979 | 3 January 1980 | 186 days | |
| Indira Gandhi | |
India |
Prime Minister | 15 January 1980 | 31 October 1984 | 4 years, 290 days |
| Dame Eugenia Charles |  |
 Dominica |
Prime Minister | 21 July 1980 | 14 June 1995 | 14 years, 328 days |
| Gro Harlem Brundtland | .jpg) |
 Norway |
Prime Minister | 4 February 1981 | 14 October 1981 | 252 days |
| Milka Planinc |  Yugoslavia |
Prime Minister | 16 May 1982 | 15 May 1986 | 3 years, 364 days | |
| Gro Harlem Brundtland | |
Norway |
Prime Minister | 9 May 1986 | 16 October 1989 | 3 years, 160 days |
| Benazir Bhutto |  |
 Pakistan |
Prime Minister | 2 December 1988 | 6 July 1990 | 1 year, 216 days |
| Kazimira Prunskienė |  |
Lithuania |
Prime Minister | 17 March 1990 | 10 January 1991 | 299 days |
| Gro Harlem Brundtland | |
Norway |
Prime Minister | 3 November 1990 | 25 October 1996 | 5 years, 357 days |
| Khaleda Zia |  |
 Bangladesh |
Prime Minister | 27 February 1991 | 30 March 1996 | 5 years, 32 days |
| Édith Cresson |  |
 France |
Prime Minister | 15 May 1991 | 2 April 1992 | 323 days |
| Hanna Suchocka |  |
 Poland |
Prime Minister | 11 July 1992 | 25 October 1993 | 1 year, 106 days |
| Tansu Çiller |  Turkey |
Prime Minister | 13 June 1993 | 6 March 1996 | 2 years, 267 days | |
| Kim Campbell |  |
 Canada |
Prime Minister | 25 June 1993 | 4 November 1993 | 132 days |
| Sylvie Kinigi | |
Burundi |
Prime Minister | 10 July 1993 | 27 October 1993 | 109 days |
| Agathe Uwilingiyimana | |
 Rwanda |
Prime Minister | 18 July 1993 | 7 April 1994 | 263 days |
| Benazir Bhutto | |
Pakistan |
Prime Minister | 19 October 1993 | 5 November 1996 | 3 years, 17 days |
| Chandrika Kumaratunga | Sri Lanka |
Prime Minister | 19 August 1994 | 14 November 1994 | 87 days | |
| Reneta Indzhova | |
 Bulgaria |
Acting Prime Minister | 17 October 1994 | 25 January 1995 | 100 days |
| Sirimavo Bandaranaike | |
Sri Lanka |
Prime Minister | 14 November 1994 | 10 July 2000 | 5 years, 239 days |
| Claudette Werleigh | |
Haiti |
Prime Minister | 7 November 1995 | 27 February 1996 | 112 days |
| Sheikh Hasina | .jpg) |
Bangladesh |
Prime Minister | 12 June 1996 | 15 July 2001 | 5 years, 33 days |
| Janet Jagan | |
Guyana |
Prime Minister | 6 March 1997 | 19 December 1997 | 288 days |
| Jenny Shipley |  |
 New Zealand |
Prime Minister | 5 December 1997 | 5 December 1999 | 2 years, 0 days |
| Anne Enger Lahnstein |  |
Norway |
Acting Prime Minister | 30 August 1998 | 23 September 1998 | 24 days |
| Irena Degutienė |  |
Lithuania |
Acting Prime Minister | 4 May 1999 | 18 May 1999 | 14 days |
| Nyam-Osoryn Tuyaa | |
 Mongolia |
Acting Prime Minister | 22 July 1999 | 30 July 1999 | 8 days |
| Irena Degutienė | |
Lithuania |
Acting Prime Minister | 27 October 1999 | 3 November 1999 | 7 days |
| Helen Clark |  |
New Zealand |
Prime Minister | 5 December 1999 | 19 November 2008 | 8 years, 350 days |
| Mame Madior Boye | |
 Senegal |
Prime Minister | 3 March 2001 | 4 November 2002 | 1 year, 246 days |
| Khaleda Zia | |
Bangladesh |
Prime Minister | 1 October 2001 | 29 October 2006 | 5 years, 28 days |
| Chang Sang | |
South Korea |
Acting Prime Minister | 11 July 2002 | 31 July 2002 | 20 days |
| Maria das Neves | |
 São Tomé and Príncipe |
Prime Minister | 3 October 2002 | 18 September 2004 | 1 year, 351 days |
| Anneli Jäätteenmäki |  |
Finland |
Prime Minister | 17 April 2003 | 24 June 2003 | 68 days |
| Beatriz Merino | |
 Peru |
Prime Minister | 28 June 2003 | 15 December 2003 | 170 days |
| Luisa Diogo |  |
 Mozambique |
Prime Minister | 17 February 2004 | 16 January 2010 | 5 years, 333 days |
| Radmila Šekerinska | .jpg) |
 Macedonia |
Acting Prime Minister | 12 May 2004 | 12 June 2004 | 31 days |
| Radmila Šekerinska | |
Macedonia |
Acting Prime Minister | 3 November 2004 | 15 December 2004 | 42 days |
| Yulia Tymoshenko |  |
 Ukraine |
Prime Minister | 24 January 2005 | 6 September 2005 | 225 days |
| Cynthia Pratt | |
 Bahamas |
Acting Prime Minister | 4 May 2005 | 6 June 2005 | 32 days |
| Maria do Carmo Silveira | |
São Tomé and Príncipe |
Prime Minister | 8 June 2005 | 21 April 2006 | 317 days |
| Angela Merkel |  |
 Germany |
Chancellor | 22 November 2005 | Incumbent | 20 years, 197 days |
| Portia Simpson-Miller |  |
 Jamaica |
Prime Minister | 30 March 2006 | 11 September 2007 | 1 year, 165 days |
| Han Myeong-sook |  |
South Korea |
Prime Minister | 19 April 2006 | 7 March 2007 | 322 days |
| Yulia Tymoshenko | |
Ukraine |
Prime Minister | 18 December 2007 | 3 March 2010 | 2 years, 75 days |
| Zinaida Greceanîi |  |
 Moldova |
Prime Minister | 31 March 2008 | 14 September 2009 | 1 year, 167 days |
| Michèle Pierre-Louis | .jpg) |
Haiti |
Prime Minister | 5 September 2008 | 11 November 2009 | 1 year, 67 days |
| Sheikh Hasina | |
Bangladesh |
Prime Minister | 29 December 2008 | Incumbent | 17 years, 160 days |
| Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir | .jpg) |
Iceland |
Prime Minister | 1 February 2009 | 23 May 2013 | 4 years, 111 days |
| Jadranka Kosor |  |
Croatia |
Prime Minister | 6 July 2009 | 23 December 2011 | 2 years, 170 days |
| Cécile Manorohanta | |
 Madagascar |
Acting Prime Minister | 18 December 2009 | 20 December 2009 | 2 days |
| Kamla Persad-Bissessar |  |
 Trinidad and Tobago |
Prime Minister | 26 May 2010 | Incumbent | 16 years, 12 days |
| Mari Kiviniemi |  |
Finland |
Prime Minister | 22 June 2010 | 22 June 2011 | 1 year, 0 days |
| Julia Gillard | |
Australia |
Prime Minister | 24 June 2010 | 27 June 2013 | 3 years, 3 days |
| Iveta Radičová |  Slovakia |
Prime Minister | 8 July 2010 | 4 April 2012 | 1 year, 271 days | |
| Rosario Fernández |  |
Peru |
Prime Minister | 19 March 2011 | 28 July 2011 | 131 days |
| Cissé Mariam Kaïdama Sidibé | |
 Mali |
Prime Minister | 3 April 2011 | 22 March 2012 | 354 days |
| Yingluck Shinawatra |  |
 Thailand |
Prime Minister | 3 July 2011 | 7 May 2014 | 2 years, 308 days |
| Helle Thorning-Schmidt | .jpg) |
 Denmark |
Prime Minister | 3 October 2011 | Incumbent | 14 years, 247 days |
| Portia Simpson-Miller | |
Jamaica |
Prime Minister | 5 January 2012 | Incumbent | 14 years, 153 days |
| Adiato Djaló Nandigna | |
Guinea-Bissau |
Acting Prime Minister | 10 February 2012 | 12 April 2012 | 62 days |
| Alenka Bratušek |  |
 Slovenia |
Prime Minister | 20 March 2013 | 18 September 2014 | 1 year, 182 days |
| Sibel Siber | .jpg) |
 Northern Cyprus |
Prime Minister | 13 June 2013 | 2 September 2013 | 81 days |
| Tatiana Turanskaya |  |
 Transnistria |
Prime Minister | 10 July 2013 | Incumbent | 12 years, 332 days |
| Aminata Touré | |
Senegal |
Prime Minister | 1 September 2013 | 8 July 2014 | 310 days |
| Erna Solberg |  |
Norway |
Prime Minister | 16 October 2013 | Incumbent | 12 years, 234 days |
| Laimdota Straujuma |  |
Latvia |
Prime Minister | 22 January 2014 | Incumbent | 12 years, 135 days |
| Ana Jara |  |
Peru |
Prime Minister | 22 July 2014 | 2 April 2015 | 254 days |
| Ewa Kopacz |  |
Poland |
Prime Minister | 22 September 2014 | Incumbent | 11 years, 258 days |
| Florence Duperval Guillaume |  |
Haiti |
Acting Prime Minister | 20 December 2014 | 16 January 2015 | 27 days |
| Saara Kuugongelwa-Amadhila |  Namibia |
Prime Minister | 21 March 2015 | Incumbent | 11 years, 78 days |