International women: QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
- First lady President of Sri Lanka – Mrs. Chandrika Kumaratunga (1994
- First woman judge of the International Court of Justice – Rosaline Higgins (UK)
- First lady president of the Non-Aligned Movement – S. Bhandaranayake (Sri Lanka)
- France’s first woman Prime Minister – Edith Crescent (1991)
- Turkey’s first woman Prime Minister – Tansu Seler (1993)
- Canadian First Lady Prime Minister – Kim Campwell (1993)
- Bangladesh’s first woman Prime Minister – Beg Khaleda Zia (1991)
- Norwegian First Lady Prime Minister – Grow Harlem Bundland (1981)
- Queen of the Dominion of the Queen (Queen) – Margaret II
- Ireland’s First Lady President – Mary Robison (1990)
- Philippines’s First Lady President – Korojan Aquino (1986)
- Romanian First Lady President – Corojan Aquino (1986)
- Romanian First Lady President – Nikolai Ceauşescu
- Queen Elizabeth II – First Lady of UK Women’s Highness
- The Queen of the Netherlands – Queen Biatrix
- Nicaragua’s First Lady President – Violetta Barrios de Camorro (1990)
- Japan’s First Lady Astronaut – Cheki Mucai
- She is the Indian woman who has the distinction of being the first woman Mayor in New Zealand – Sukhwinder Turner (Dunedin City)
- The first woman in the world who was elected president of the International Badminton Federation – Lue Shengroog (China)
- World’s First Lady President – María Esabell Perron (Argentina) (from 1-7-1974 to 24-3-1976)
- The world’s first elected woman President – Vigis Finnavogadotir (Iceland)
- The first clergy woman in the Church of England in England – Angela Busers Wilson
- For the first time in history, the world’s first Miss USA Badher Sundari – Heather Hnichstown
- World’s youngest student crossing the English Channel at the youngest age – Rupali Ramdas
- Who was chosen the world’s first female bishop – Ray Mary Adelier (USA)
- World’s First Nobel Prize Woman – Madam Curie
- Israel’s First Lady Prime Minister – Mrs. Goldda Mayer (1969)
- The first woman to be known at the American Theater – Helen Hedge
- First lady of India who has been awarded ‘Man-A-Humaat’, Pakistan’s highest humanity award – Neerja Mishra
- First woman president of the non-nude conference – Mrs. Indira Gandhi
- North Pole Winner First American Female – N. Bankoff
- First woman president of Japan’s lower house of Representatives – Takako Doi
- World’s Longest Women – Sandy Allen (Canadian height 7 feet 1/4 inch)
- Women giving birth to most children in the world – Lonvinna Alvina (Chile – has given birth to 55 children)
- First woman to flag India’s flag abroad – Madam Cama
- First woman player to win a gold medal in the Olympic Games – Margaret Abbott (USA)
- Pakistan’s first woman wing commander – Shahida Parveen
- The first woman in the world to reach the North Pole on foot – Christine Jenin (France)
- The world’s first woman to be appointed as the lifelong president of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) – Najma Heptullah (India)
- South Korea’s first woman Prime Minister – Chang Song
- First Female Prime Minister of Finland – Anneli Zetanmaki
- America’s First Lady Pilot – Kelly Flynn