When you're elected president (yes, you can be!)
you actually won't be the first woman.
Check out the world's other female presidents:
1993: Canada received first female Prime Minister Kim Campbell.
1994: Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga elected President of Sri Lanka.
1997: Mary McAleese elected President of Ireland.
1999: Vaira Vike-Freiberga elected to President of Latvia. She is the first woman to be president of a
country in Eastern Europe of the former Soviet Union.
1999: Mireya Elisa Moscoso de Arias becomes first female President of Panama.
1999: Helen Clark elected Prime Minister of New Zealand.
2000: Tarja Kaarina Halonen elected to be Finland's first female President.
2001: Maria Gloria Macapagal Arroyo elected President of the Phillippines.
2001: Megawati Sukarnoputri elected as the first woman President of the Republic of Indonesia.
2004: Luisa Diogo is elected Prime Minister of Mozambique.
2004-2005: Yulia Tymoshenko helps lead the Ukrainian Orange Revolution and is named Prime
Minister by her "Orange Partner" President Viktor Yushenko.
2005: Ellen Sirleaf-Johnson elected Africa's first female president as Liberia's head-of-state
in November.
2006: Michelle Bachelet is elected President of Chile.
2006: Portia Simpson Miller elected first Prime Minister of Jamaica.
2007: Cristina Fernández de Kirchner elected President of Argentina.
2007: Pratibha Patil is elected President of India.
2008: Zinaida Greceanîi is elected Prime Minister of Moldova.
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