First 10 Women Leaders

Name Country Time
1

Srimavo Bandaranike (PM)

Sri Lanka

1960-64/1970-77

2

Indira Gandhi (PM)

India

1966-1977/1980-84

3

Golda Meir (PM)

Israel

1969-74

4

Maria Estela Peron (President)

Argentia

1974-75

5

Elisabeth Domitien

Central African Republic

1975

6

Margaret Thatcher (PM)

UK

1979-1990

7

Dr. Maria Lurdes Pintasilgo

Potugal

1979

8

Vigdis Finnbogadottir

Iceland

1980

9

Mary Eugenia Charles

Dominica

1980

10

Gro Harlem Brundtland

Norway

1981/1986-1989

First 10 Women Nobel Prize Winners

Name Subject

Year

1

Marie Curie

Physics

1903

2

Bertha von Suttner

Physics

1905

3

Selma Lagerlof

Literature

1909

4

Marie Curie

Chemistry

1911

5

Grazia Deledda

Literature

1926

6

Sigrid Undset

Literature

1928

7

Jane Addams

Peace

1931

8

Irene Joliot-Curie

Chemistry

1935

9

Pearl Buck

Literature

1938

10

Gabriela Mistral

Literature

1945