India elects first female president
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NEW DELHI -- India chose its first female president yesterday in an election hailed as a victory for women in a country where gender discrimination is deep-rooted and widespread.
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HARARE, 6 December (IRIN) - Joyce Mujuru was sworn in as Zimbabwe&#39;s first woman vice president on Monday. Her path to the vice presidency was cleared by a ZANU-PF congress resolution at the weekend, which
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NEW DELHI, July 21 -- Lawmakers elected India's first female president, officials announced Saturday, in a vote seen as a step forward for hundreds of millions of Indian women and girls who face bitter discrimination in everyday life.
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Former Army General, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, will become Indonesia&#39;s first directly elected president, with official results confirming his overwhelming win over incumbent Megawati Sukarnoputri.
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Pratibha Patil, a diminutive 72-year-old lawyer, was set to be declared India&#39;s first woman president Saturday after one of the bitterest political campaigns in the nation&#39;s post-colonial history.
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Former General Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono was sworn in as Indonesia&#39;s first directly elected president, after winning a landslide victory on pledges to tackle corruption, attract investors and create jobs.
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Wangari Maathai of Kenya became the first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize for her work to promote democracy, protect the environment and improve social conditions.
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A charismatic and sly political operator, Ms. Bhutto became the Muslim worldâs first female leader.
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Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe has installed the country&#39;s first woman Vice President, two days after his ruling ZANU-PF endorsed her for a similar party position.
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India's ruling Congress party won power  in a key state on Saturday after it emerged as the largest  group in elections, the first major political test since its  victory in national polls in May.
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First female leader of a Muslim country in modern times had envisioned a democratic, moderate future
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Vice President Joyce Mujuru, the first woman appointed to the post, spent her first day as acting president yesterday while President Robert Mugabe took his vacation, state radio said.
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Jharkhand has become the first state in the country to have a Bollywood actress as brand   ambassador.
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New York, August 20: Congress president and UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi is the world&#39;s third most powerful woman after US National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice and Chinese Vice Premier Wu Yi, Forbes magazine said on Friday.
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Indian lawmakers have selected the nation's first female president in a vote seen as a symbolic victory for women contending with widespread discrimination, election officials said Saturday.
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Chile's first female president marked International Women's Day on Thursday saying women were in politics "to stay," while German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Europe must do more to bring about gender equality.
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Zimbabwe's ruling party on Saturday confirmed the election of the first woman candidate as deputy to President Robert Mugabe at the end of a congress which also endorsed Mugabe as party leader for another five years.