Did you know the first person to win an Emmy Award was a lady?! That's right. Lots of famous women in history have achieved important female firsts, paving ...
A 27-year-old female Chinese hiker, Dongying Qiu, went missing at Mt. Whitney, California in western U.S., since last Sunday. The rescuers are continuing to search for her and calling for all hikers to provide information. Oil prices keep rising ahead of OPEC meeting Oil prices settled hi...
Iceland Elects Europe's First Female-Majority Parliament More The Associated Press Iceland's Prime Minister Katrin Jakobsdottir speaks to the media after voting at a polling station in Reykjavik, Iceland, Saturday, Sept. 25, 2021. Icelanders are voting in a general election dominated by clima...
Magdalena Andersson, Sweden's first female prime minister, stepped down on Wednesday just hours after her appointment. He resignation came after her coalition partner, the Greens, left the two-party minority government, following a budget defeat in the parliament. Andersson said "a c...
As the first black female representative of Alabama in Congress, Terri A. Sewell said she was raised to accomplish anything she wanted. “I never saw my limitations when it came to being a woman in anything, let alone political power.” Sewell recently said to The Washington Post. But that...
She has sought to associate herself with another female Conservative prime minister, Margaret Thatcher, who famously encouraged social mobility and ambition in the 1980s. Truss highlighted three priorities: 1) To get the UK working: She has promised to cut taxes to boost ...
5. Education – a highly feminised education system ensures 60% of university students are female. 6. Employment – almost two-thirds of public sector workers are women, yet the ‘public sector equality duty’ in the Equality Act (2010) allows public sector organisations to favour women over ...
Rachel Jane Reeves is a British politician who has served as Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer since 2021 and was Member of Parliament for Leeds West from 2010 to 2024. Reeves studied at New College, Oxford, and the London School of Economics before working at the Bank of England and then...
South Korean parliament approves nomination of first female prime minister
President Aleksandar Vucic announced that Ana Brnabic, 41, was nominated as the prime minister-designate, which could also make her the first female head of government in the country's history. Her cabinet needs formal approval by parliament next week. It was "a difficult decision reached ...