Friday, February 24, 2012

World's Most Powerful Women

There are some women who have a strong influence in the world, they are:

1. Indira Gandhi, Prime Minister of India

Indira Gandhi  was the only child of Jawaharlal Nehru, the first prime minister of independent India. Indira Priyadarshini Gandhi (Hindi: इंदिरा प्रियदर्शिनी गांधी) Indira Gandhi was an Indian Politician Priyadarśinī who served as the third Prime Minister of India for three consecutive terms (1966-77) and a fourth term (1980-84). 


Gandhi was the second female head of government in the world after Sirimavo Bandaranaike of Sri Lanka, and she Remains as the world's second longest serving female Prime Minister as of 2012. She was the first woman prime minister to Become in India.

2. Margareth Thatcher, Prime Minister of Great Britain

Margaret Thatcher In 1975 Thatcher Defeated Heath in the Conservative Party leadership election and Became Leader of the Opposition, as well as the first woman to head a major political party in the United Kingdom. She Became prime minister after winning the 1979 general election. After entering 10 Downing Street, Thatcher introduced a series of political and economic initiatives to reverse what she perceived as a national precipitous decline in Britain. Her political philosophy and economic policies emphasised deregulation (particularly of the financial sector), flexible labor markets, the privitisation of state-owned companies, and reducing the power and influence of trade unions.


Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher, LG, OM, PC, FRS (née Roberts; born 13 October 1925) is a British Politician and longest-serving (1979-1990) British prime minister of the 20th century, and the only woman to have held the post. Originally a chemist (pharmacist), and then a barrister (trial lawyer), Thatcher Became Member of Parliament (MP) for Finchley in the 1959 general election. 

3. Benazir Bhutto, Prime Minister of Pakistan

Benazir Bhutto's popularity waned Amid recession, corruption, high unemployment and the which later led to the dismissal of her government by conservative President Ghulam Ishaq Khan. In 1993, Benazir Bhutto was re-elected for a second term after the 1993 parliamentary elections. Benazir Bhutto conceded her defeat in the 1997 Parliamentary elections and went into self-imposed exile in Dubai, United Arab Emirates in 1998.



Benazir Bhutto (Sindhi: بينظير ڀٽو; Urdu: بینظیر بھٹو, pronounced [be ː nəzi ː r b ʱ ʊʈʈo ː]; 21 June 1953-27 December 2007) was a Pakistani democratic socialist who served as the 11th Prime Minister of Pakistan in two non-consecutive terms from 1988 until 1990 and 1993 until 1996. She was the daughter of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, a former prime minister of Pakistan and the founder of the Pakistan People's Party, the which she led. In 1982, at age 29, Benazir Bhutto Became the chairwoman of the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP)-a democratic socialist, center-left party, making her the first woman in Pakistan to head a major political party.


Noted for her charismatic authority and political Astuteness, Benazir Bhutto drove initiatives for Pakistan's economy and national security, and she Implemented capitalist social policies for industrial development and growth. 

4. Corazon Aquino, President of the Philippines

Corazon Aquino was assassinated on August 21, 1983 upon returning to the Philippines after three years in exile in the United States. After her husband's assassination, Aquino emerged as the leader of the Opposition against the Marcos administration. In late 1985, when President Marcos called for a snap election, Aquino ran for president with former senator Salvador Laurel as her vice-presidential running mate. After the elections were held on February 7, 1986, and the Batasang Pambansa proclaimed Marcos the winner in the elections, Aquino called for massive protests Civil Disobedience, declaring herself as having been cheated and as the real winner in the elections.


Maria Corazon Sumulong Cojuangco-Aquino (January 25, 1933 - August 1, 2009) was the 11th President of the Philippines and the first woman to hold office in Philippine history That. A self-proclaimed "plain housewife", Aquino was married to Senator Benigno Aquino, Jr.., The staunchest critic of then President Ferdinand Marcos.


As President, Aquino oversaw the promulgation of a new constitution, the which limited the powers of the Presidency and established a bicameral Legislature.  Aquino's economic policies centered on Bringing back confidence and economic health and focused on creating a market-oriented economy and Socially Responsible.

5. Sonia Gandhi, India's Congress Party Leader

Sonia Gandhi, has been the President of the Indian National Congress Party. She has served as the Chairperson of the ruling United Progressive Alliance in the Lok Sabha since 2004. In September 2010, on being re-elected for the fourth time, she Became the longest serving president in the 125-year history of the Congress party

Sonia Gandhi ( born Antonia Albina Maino Edvigeon 9 December 1946 ) is an Italian-born Indian Politician and the President of the Indian National Congress, one of the major political parties of India. She is the widow of former Prime Minister of India, Rajiv Gandhi and belongs to the Nehru-Gandhi family. After his assassination in 1991, she was invited by the Indian National Congress to take over the Congress and publicly Refused but stayed away from politics a midst the constant prodding by Congress. She finally Agreed to join politics in 1997; in 1998, she was elected as the leader of the Congress.

6. Eva Perón, The wife of the President of Argentina
Eva Perón has become a part of international popular culture, most famously as the subject of the musical Evita (1976). Cristina Alvarez Rodriguez, Evita's great niece, claims That Evita has never left the collective consciousness of Argentines. Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, the first female elected president of Argentina, claims That women of her generation Owe a debt to Eva for "her example of passion and combativeness".


María Eva Duarte de Perón (Spanish: [maɾi.a eβa ðwarte de peɾon]; 7 May 1919-26 July 1952) was the second wife of President Juan Perón (1895-1974) and served as the First Lady of Argentina from 1946 until her death in 1952. She is Often Referred to as simply Eva Perón, or by the affectionate Spanish language diminutive Evita.


Eva met Colonel Juan Perón on 22 January 1944, in Buenos Aires during a charity event at the Luna Park Stadium to benefit the Victims of an earthquake in San Juan, Argentina. In 1946, Juan Perón was elected president of Argentina. 


In 1951, Eva Perón Announced her candidacy for the Peronist Nomination for the office of Vice President of Argentina. Eva Perón was given an official state Despite the fact That funeral she was not an elected head of state.

7. Golda Meir, Prime Minister of Israel

Golda Meir was elected Prime Minister of Israel on March 17, 1969,  after serving as Minister of Labour and Foreign Minister.  In 1974, after the conclusion of the Yom Kippur War, Meir resigned as prime minister.


Golda Meir (Hebrew: גּוֹלְדָּה מֵאִיר [ɡolda] or [ɡolda] [meʔiʁ],  Earlier Golda Meyerson, born Golda Mabovich (Голда Мабович); May 3, 1898 - December 8, 1978) was a teacher, kibbutzniks who  and Politician Became the fourth Prime Minister of the State of Israel.

8. Sirimavo Bandarnaike, Prime Minister of Sri Lanka

The Ladies Style | Sirimavo Bandaranaike was the widow of a previous Sri Lankan prime minister, Solomon Bandaranaike and the mother of Sri Lanka's fourth Executive President, Chandrika Kumaratunga, as well as Anura Bandaranaike, former speaker and cabinet minister.


Sirimavo Dias Bandaranaike Ratwatte (Sinhala: සිරිමාවෝ රත්වත්තේ ඩයස් බන්ඩාරනායක, Tamil: சிறிமாவோ ரத்வாட்டே திஸ் பண்டரனைகே; April 17, 1916 - October 10, 2000) was a Sri Lankan Politician and the modern world's first female head of government.

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