Women have taken the lead and have proven to be very good at it. Read more at straitstimes.com.
Ms Elisabeth Borne, a 61-year-old engineer, was
becoming only the second woman to hold the position after Ms Edith Cresson, a Socialist, who held the job for less than a year in the early 1990s.Ms Katerina Sakellaropoulou, a trailblazing lawyer, was While the presidency is a mainly ceremonial role in Greece, Ms Sakellaropoulou had already broken new ground in the judiciary by becoming president of the country's top court in 2018.Ms Katalin Novak, a close ally of Prime Minister Viktor Orban and former minister for family policy, was elected Hungary's first ever woman president in March 2022. The presidency is a largely ceremonial role.
Lithuania has a strong tradition of female leadership, with"Baltic Iron Lady" Dalia Grybauskaite spending a decade in power from 2009 to 2019.Liberal lawyer and anti-graft campaigner Zuzana Caputova, 48, took office in June 2019 A political novice, she had comfortably beaten the ruling party's candidate in elections. In Slovakia, the president has less power than the prime minister but can veto laws and appointments of senior judges.Despite being a country that champions gender equality, Sweden never had a woman as prime minister before Ms Magdalena Andersson, a Social Democrat, whoAn economist who had served as finance minister for seven years, Ms Andersson had a rocky start.
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