who was the first ever lady prime minister of new zealand ?
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Jenny Shipley - 8th Dec 1997 to 5th Dec 1999. \n\nAlthough the current prime minister, Helen Clark, is the first woman to have been elected as prime minister.\n\nJenny Shipley became prime minister when she took over the leadership of the National Party from Jim Bolger, who was the prime minister at that time.
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Education Secretary.\n\nBreaking the barriers\n\nMargaret Thatcher was the longest serving Prime Minister for more than 150 years and was the first woman ever to take the role.\n\nHer father, a shopkeeper and Mayor of Grantham, was a major formative influence.\n\nThatcher was educated at the local grammar school and at Oxford where she studied chemistry. She also became president of the university Conservative association.\n\nMrs Thatcher later read for the Bar, before being elected in 1959 as the Conservative MP for Finchley.\n\nBritain went to war with Argentina over the Falklands IslandsShe held junior posts before becoming shadow spokesperson for Education, and entered the Cabinet as Education Secretary in 1970.\n\nIn Opposition she stood against Edward Heath for the party leadership in 1975. Her victory was considered a surprise by many. In 1979, the Conservative Party won the General Election and Margaret Thatcher succeeded James Callaghan as PM.\n\nThatcher's first two years in office were not easy. Unemployment was very high, but the economy gradually showed improvement. She brought more of her supporters into the Cabinet, and bolstered her reputation by leading the country to war against Argentina in the Falkland Islands.\n\nLandslide victory\n\nThe Conservatives went on to win the 1983 election by a landslide, aided by a fragmented opposition. Margaret Thatcher's government followed a radical programme of privatisation and deregulation, reform of the Trade Unions, tax cuts and the introduction of market mechanisms into health and education. The aim was to reduce the role of government and increase individual self-reliance.\n\nThatcher and US president Ronald Reagan enjoyed a close relationshipShe also became a familiar figure internationally, striking up a famous friendship with US President Reagan and gaining the praise of Soviet leader Gorbachev.\n\nOne great difficulty during her time in office was the issue of Europe. Her long-serving Foreign Secretary, Sir Geoffrey Howe resigned in November 1990 in protest at Thatcher's attitude to Europe.\n\nFinal downfall\n\nHis resignation speech set in train events which were to lead to Thatcher's downfall later that month.\n\nMichael Heseltine challenged her for the leadership, and while he failed to win, he gained 152 votes - enough to make it evident that a crucial minority favoured a change. Thatcher was eventually persuaded not to go forward to the second ballot, which was won by her Chancellor of the Exchequer, John Major.\n\nShe left the House of Commons in 1992, and now sits in the Lords as Baroness Thatcher. Margaret Thatcher's writings include two volumes of memoirs: The Downing Street Years and The Path to Power.\n\nThe Baroness is still seen at Tory party gatherings and has endorsed party leaders such as William Hague and Iain Duncan Smith.
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Pocahantas, Eleanor Roosevelt, Emmaline Pankhurst (founded Suffragettes), Nellie Bly 1867-1922 (pioneered investigative journalism ~ a woman who defied all odds of being a woman.  Raced around the world to beat "Around the World in 80 Days" by 2 days...admitted herself into a mental institution to expose horrid conditions there...)
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Wendy Grafton from New Zealand.  She was the NZ champion in 1962, 1963, 1965, and 1966.
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United Kingdom - Margaret Thatcher\nIndia - Indira Gandhi\nArgentina - Isabel Peron\n\nCheck the link for more\n\nand then take away the countries that are left in the world and you will have the correct answer... remind me to read better next time lol
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Arthur Balfour - he was prime minister between 1902 and 1905.\n\nJawaharlal Nehru was prime minister of India between 1947 and 1964.
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May 20 1768 - born\nJuly 12 1849 - died\n\nWas first lady at age 40
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Lady Thatcher (Politics) First Woman Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1979 - 1990)
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A montana congress Woman\nJeannette Rankin\nThe first woman to serve in either house of the U. S. Congress, and one of the first women to serve in any major legislative body, was Montana's Jeannette Rankin. She was elected in 1916, at a time when women could not even vote in most states.
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Another woman landmark: Nancy Pelosi is the first woman to become Speaker of the House.
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The current prime minister is Patrick Manning, not to be confused with the current president, George Maxwell Richards. \n\nHe was born in 1946, and is the leader of the People's National Movement. He previously served as PM from 1991 to 1995, his current term began in late 2001. A geologist by training, Manning has served as Member of Parliament for the San Fernando East constituency since 1971 and is currently the longest-serving member of the House of Representatives.
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The first woman in the US House of Representatives, she voted not only against WWII, but also against entry into WWI.  Her name is Jeanette Rankin and there's some more info on her at Wikipedia:\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeannette_Rankin
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1953: First Summit: May 29, 1953: Tenzing Norgay & Sir Edmund Percival Hillary (New Zealand) via the South-East Ridge Route. (Western Cwn, Lhotse face to the South-East ridge.)
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The first woman to win a nobel price was:\n\n1905 Bertha Kinsky von Sutner became the first woman to win a Nobel Peace Prize. She had founded European pacifist organizations with her husband, Artur.\n\nThe First Woman to win in science:\n1911 Marie Curie won the Nobel Prize in Physics for the isolation of the elements polonium and radium.\n  \nfollowed by:\n  \nAlexis Carrel (b.1873), French surgeon and biologist, won a Nobel Prize for the development of blood vessel suture technique.
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google her, she was probably the greatest 1st lady our country ever had. and she was married to franklin roosevelt not kennedy
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Tony Blair is the current Prime Minister of United Kingdom. Blair began his political career in 1983, when he was elected to the British Parliament as a member of the Labor Party. He quickly advanced to the party's front ranks during the Conservative administration of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, when Labor was in the opposition. He won the favor of Labor leaders, who believed Blair's moderate positions would revive popular support for the party. From 1984 to 1987 Blair was opposition spokesman on treasury and economic affairs. He then moved to various posts in the Departments of Trade and Industry, Energy, and Employment. In 1992 Blair was promoted again, taking charge of domestic issues in the Labor Party's counterpart to the governing Conservative cabinet. Blair was chosen to lead the Labor Party following the death of John Smith in 1994. Tony Blair, at 41 years old, was Labor's youngest leader ever. He soon established a reputation as a determined reformer and firm leader, confronting established factions and contentious policy issues within the party. Almost immediately, Tony Blair began working to make the party more mainstream, de-emphasizing its traditional ties to labor and trade unions in an effort to broaden the party's membership. In May of 1997, Tony Blair, became the youngest British Prime Minister in almost 200 years. After taking office, Blair vowed to honor his campaign pledge to abide by national spending limits and programs established by the preceding Conservative administration. At the same time, he launched ambitious new programs aimed at building better relations with the European Union decentralizing the national government, and reforming Britain's welfare state. In his first year in office Blair fulfilled his campaign promise to hold referendums in Scotland and Wales to decentralize powers from the British Parliament to a Scottish parliament and a Welsh assembly. In addition, Blair worked to stimulate the faltering peace talks in Northern Ireland. Buoyed by the strong performance of the British economy, Blair called general elections in June 2001. Blair led the Labor Party to its second consecutive landslide victory and secured a second term as Prime Minister.
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The first female head of state (Chairman of the Presidium) is Sühbaataryn Yanjmaa of Mongolia, from September 23, 1953-July 7, 1954. The first female president however is Isabel Martínez de Perón from Argentina, served from July 1, 1974-March 24, 1976.