Celebrate Women’s History Month – Learn About Women Leaders

March is Women’s History month, and this month’s Pink magazine (February-March 2009) includes an article about 13 women political leaders around the globe. According to the article, of 195 nations in the world, 13 are run by women (in other words, the president or prime minister is a woman), and another 31 have vice presidents or deputy prime ministers who are women. We’ve come close in the U.S., but so far, our women haven’t made it to those positions. Perhaps these women will be an inspiration to rising female U.S. political hopefuls. Since politics and law go hand in hand, attorneys take note!

I may be showing my ignorance here, but I didn’t even know the 13, so in honor of Women’s History Month, here they are:

Michelle Bachelet, President of Chile since 2006

Luisa Diogo, Prime Minister of Mozambique since 2004

Cristina E. Fernandez DeKirchner, President of Argentina since 2007

Zinaida Grecianii, Prime Minister of Moldova since 2008

Tarja Kaarina Halonen, President of Finland since 2000

Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, President of Liberia since 2006

Borjana Kristo, President of the Federation of Bosnia since 2007

Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, President of the Philippines since 2001

Mary McAleese, President of Ireland since 1997

Angela Merkel, Chancellor of Germany since 2005

Pratibha Patil, President of India since 2007

Michele Pierr-Louis, Prime Minister of Haiti since 2008

Yulia Tymoshenko, Prime Minister of Ukraine since 2006