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Meet the women who are ruling the world politics

By Aditi Jain Last updated Jun 29, 2018

Sonia Gandhi - Sushma Swaraj — Meet the women who are ruling the world politics

Women have seen and been through everything. Even in the 21st century, women are being given a list of careers to choose and politics is most definitely not on the list. But there are some who have broken the shackles and did what they wanted to. Politics have always been a male-dominated field but these women entered and showed what they were capable of.

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Here is a list of all the badass women who are ruling the world politics :

Sonia Gandhi — Gandhi, the widow of former Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, has long been a supporter of women’s and human rights. Though she stayed out of the political limelight immediately following her husband’s assassination in 1991, she later entered a career in politics, securing positions like President of the Congress. Today her focus is on passing the Women’s Reservation Bill, which seeks to reserve 33% of the seats in lower house of Indian Parliament to women.

Angela Markel - Chancellor of Germany — She is the Chancellor of Germany. She garnered the full spotlight when she was named TIME’s person of the year, but her notable acts go beyond gracing a magazine cover. Despite strong opposition, she opened Germany’s doors to migrants during the Syrian refugee crisis.

Ellen Johnson Sirleaf – President of Africa — She is the first female president elected in Africa. She began her political career in 1972, with a scathing message against the oppressive government at her alma mater, then went on to work at the Treasury Department and later became its Minister of Finance. Although she was put on a 30-year ban from politics, she ran for president but lost to a political opponent accused of war crimes. She sent herself into exile for her own safety soon after. In 2006, she won the presidential election and was re-elected in 2011. She received a Nobel Peace Prize the same year, shared with Leymah Gbowee and Tawakkul Karman, for their “non-violent struggle for the safety of women and for women’s rights to full participation in peace-building work.”

Helle Thorning-Schmidt – prime Minister of Denmark — She is the first female prime minister and leader of the Social Democrats in Denmark. During her term she loosened the strict, anti-immigration laws set forth by her predecessors. After stepping down, Schmidt took on the role of Chief Executive for the non-governmental organization, Save the Children, which promotes children’s rights in developing nations.

Park Geun-hye – President of South Korea — Park’s position as South Korea’s first female president, among other accomplishments, earned her the #11 spot on Forbes’ Most Powerful Women list (and #43 overall). Though reeling back from the Sewol ferry sinking, which occurred during her term, Park spearheaded a free trade deal with Canada—reportedly the first of its kind between Canada and an Asian country.

Christine Lagarde - Managing director of the International Monetary Fund — One of the most powerful women in the world—in fact ranked #6 by Forbes—French native Lagarde is a woman of many hats. She’s credited as a lawyer, politician for the Union for a Popular Movement party and, since 2011, the managing director of the International Monetary Fund (to replace Dominique Strauss-Kahn). As the first woman to head the IMF, Lagarde is seeing the onset of a slight global upturn since the recent recession, and she’s also helping the fund support female employment in order to avoid poverty and inequality.

Hillary Clinton, Secretary of State of US — She missed out on the presidency of the United States after being beaten to the post by the charismatic Barack Obama. But readily accepted the second most powerful position in the US administration: Secretary of State. She has also exhibited a tougher side; Clinton was the only woman in the control room at White House that monitored the operation that killed Osama bin Laden in Abbottabad, Pakistan. Once best known as the betrayed wife of her philandering husband, former US President Bill Clinton, she is today considered the most formidable woman politician in the world.

Dilma Rousseff, President of Brazil — A former Marxist guerrilla, Dilma Rousseff took charge as the president of Latin America’s biggest nation in January, 2011. In the early 1970s, Rousseff was imprisoned and brutally tortured for being a Marxist sympathizer and the member of a revolutionary group. After the end of the military regime, she went back to college and graduated in economics. She soon joined politics and made a mark as Brazil’s energy secretary, increasing the country’s power production manifold through her policies.

Sushma Swaraj – External Affairs minister of India — Seven times Member of Parliament and three times Member of the Legislative Assemby, Sushma Swaraj, the BJP leader, is now the Union Minister of External Affairs of India. She is the second woman to hold this position after Indira Gandhi.

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