Only 13 of the 193 member states of the United Nations we have female heads of government today, shows a survey by the Pew Research Center.
Among them is Mexico, where President Claudia Sheinbaum recently took office.
Mexico is one of nine countries where the current head of government is the country’s first, according to an analysis by the Pew Research Center.
31% of UN member states have had a woman in leadership at some point
General, in 60 UN member states (31%) There has already been a female head of government.
The first was Sri Lanka, then called Ceylon, where Sirimavo Bandaranaike began her first term as prime minister in 1960. Two other countries – India in 1966 and Israel in 1969 – saw their first women leaders during this decade.
Globally, the number of countries that have women in their leadership has been rising steadily since 1990. The biggest annual increase occurred in 2010, when five countries – Australia, Costa Rica, Kyrgyzstan, Slovakia and Trinidad and Tobago – had a female head of state for the first time.
Mia Mottley, Prime Minister of Barbados, is the longest-serving woman currently in office. Mottley has been in the position for more than six years.
The title of longest-serving head of government in modern history belongs to the former prime minister of Bangladesh Sheikh Hasina. Hasina spent more than 20 years in power but resigned and fled Bangladesh earlier this year when mass protests against the quota system for public jobs turned into a more violent movement against her rule. (She was also the oldest female leader, according to a separate Pew Research Center analysis.)