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Female leaders of independent states.

Source: R/data.R
female_leaders.Rd

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

Source

wikipedia.org

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_elected_and_appointed_female_heads_of_state_and_government&oldid=1078024588

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.