(Baonghean.vn) - Recently, CNN listed women who overcame political barriers to rise to power in countries around the world.
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Tsai Ing-wen, 59, was elected Taiwan's first female president on January 16. The former law professor and leader of the opposition Democratic Progressive Party took over after eight years of rule by the Kuomintang. |
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Angela Merkel, 61, has been German Chancellor since 2005 and is the European Union's longest-serving head of government. |
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Aung San Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy (NLD) won a historic majority in Myanmar’s parliament on November 8, 2015, ending decades of military rule in the country. Elections were held freely in Myanmar for the first time in 25 years. Despite the NLD’s victory, the Nobel laureate cannot become president under a constitution drafted under the military government. |
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Ms. Park Geun-hye, 63 years old, was elected President of South Korea in 2013. She is the daughter of former President Park Chung-hee and is the first woman to hold a leadership position in this country. |
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Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, 77, is the 24th and current President of Liberia. She is the first female head of state in Africa. |
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Ammeenah Gurib-Fakim, 56, is the sixth and current President of Mauritius. The biodiversity scientist is the first woman to be elected president of the country. |
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Ms. Dilma Rousseff, 68 years old, is the 36th President of Brazil and the first woman to take power in this country. |
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Bidhya Devi Bhandari, 54, is the second and current President of Nepal. The Nepalese Parliament elected Ms. Bhandari as the country's first female president in October 2015. |
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Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović, 47 years old, is the 4th and current President of the Republic of Croatia, and also the first woman to hold this position. |
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Michelle Bachelet, 64, is the President of Chile, currently serving a term that began on March 11, 2014. She served as President from 2006 to 2010, and is the first Chilean woman to hold this position. |
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Ms. Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir (left), 73 years old, is the former Prime Minister of Iceland. She is the first female leader of Iceland and also the first head of state in the world to be openly lesbian. |
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Ms. Yingluck Shinawatra, 48 years old, is a businesswoman and former Prime Minister of Thailand. She was ousted in 2014 due to allegations of abuse of power. |
Thu Giang
(According to CNN)