List of female premiers in Australia

• 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, 105 days

List of List of elected or appointed female heads of state

• Bold denotes incumbent head of state
• Italics denotes an acting head of state

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		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		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		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		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, 134 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, 302 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, 171 days
Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf		Switzerland	Member of the Swiss Federal Council	1 January 2008	Incumbent	16 years, 149 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, 322 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, 210 days
Dilma Rousseff		Brazil	President	1 January 2011	Incumbent	13 years, 149 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, 52 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		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		South Korea	President	25 February 2013	Incumbent	11 years, 94 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, 127 days
Michelle Bachelet		Chile	President	11 March 2014	Incumbent	10 years, 79 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, 55 days
Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović		Croatia	President	19 February 2015	Incumbent	9 years, 100 days

List of elected or appointed female heads of government

• Bold denotes incumbent head of government
• Italics denotes an acting head of government

Name	Image	Country	Office	Mandate start	Mandate end	Term length
Sirimavo Bandaranaike		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		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		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		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, 189 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		Haiti	Prime Minister	5 September 2008	11 November 2009	1 year, 67 days
Sheikh Hasina		Bangladesh	Prime Minister	29 December 2008	Incumbent	15 years, 152 days
Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir		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	14 years, 3 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		Denmark	Prime Minister	3 October 2011	Incumbent	12 years, 239 days
Portia Simpson-Miller		Jamaica	Prime Minister	5 January 2012	Incumbent	12 years, 145 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		Northern Cyprus	Prime Minister	13 June 2013	2 September 2013	81 days
Tatiana Turanskaya		Transnistria	Prime Minister	10 July 2013	Incumbent	10 years, 324 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, 226 days
Laimdota Straujuma		Latvia	Prime Minister	22 January 2014	Incumbent	10 years, 127 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, 250 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, 69 days