female_leaders: Female leaders of independent states.
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female_leaders

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Female leaders of independent states.

Description

Data from Wikipedia on women who have been elected or appointed head of state or government of their respective countries since the interwar period (1918–1939).

Usage

female_leaders

Format

A data frame with 131 rows and 5 variables

name: Person
startdate: Start of tenure
enddate: End of tenure
country: Country
power: Executive or non-executive

Details

This list includes women who were appointed by a governing committee or parliament where heads of state or government are not directly elected by citizens. The list does not include women chosen by a hereditary monarch.