List of female premiers in Australia edit
Denotes incumbent premiers
- Italics denotes acting premiers
| 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 | 9 years, 84 days |
List of List of elected or appointed female heads of state edit
Conservative
Social Democrat
Liberal/Centrist
Green
Independent
| 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 | 18 years, 113 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 | 17 years, 281 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 | 16 years, 150 days |
| Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf | 
|
Switzerland
|
Member of the Swiss Federal Council | 1 January 2008 | Incumbent | 16 years, 128 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 | 14 years, 301 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 | 13 years, 189 days |
| Dilma Rousseff | 
|
 Brazil
|
President | 1 January 2011 | Incumbent | 13 years, 128 days |
| Maria Luisa Berti |
|
San Marino
|
Captain Regent | 1 April 2011 | 1 October 2011 | 183 days |
| Atifete Jahjaga | 
|
 Kosovo
|
President | 7 April 2011 | Incumbent | 13 years, 31 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 | 11 years, 73 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 | 10 years, 106 days |
| Michelle Bachelet |
|
Chile
|
President | 11 March 2014 | Incumbent | 10 years, 58 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 | 10 years, 34 days |
| Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović | 
|
 Croatia
|
President | 19 February 2015 | Incumbent | 9 years, 79 days |
List of elected or appointed female heads of government edit
Conservative
Social Democrat
Liberal/Centrist
Green
Independent
| 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 | 18 years, 168 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 | 15 years, 131 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 | 13 years, 348 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 | 12 years, 218 days |
| Portia Simpson-Miller |
|
Jamaica
|
Prime Minister | 5 January 2012 | Incumbent | 12 years, 124 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 | 10 years, 303 days |
| Aminata Touré |
|
Senegal
|
Prime Minister | 1 September 2013 | 8 July 2014 | 310 days |
| Erna Solberg | 
|
Norway
|
Prime Minister | 16 October 2013 | Incumbent | 10 years, 205 days |
| Laimdota Straujuma | 
|
Latvia
|
Prime Minister | 22 January 2014 | Incumbent | 10 years, 106 days |
| Ana Jara | 
|
Peru
|
Prime Minister | 22 July 2014 | 2 April 2015 | 254 days |
| Ewa Kopacz | 
|
Poland
|
Prime Minister | 22 September 2014 | Incumbent | 9 years, 229 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 | 9 years, 48 days |