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Countries Where Women Have Held Power, 1960 – 2020

Source: Statista

Women leading nations may be relatively commonplace now, but that’s a fairly recent development. Dive into statistics about women as world leaders over the past half century.

This entry was posted in Gender Roles and tagged Culture & Society, Current Events, People on February 1, 2020 by Mikki Gibson.

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