Girl Power

Posted by: GOOD , Open
on August 15, 2007 at 1:21 pm

Only 10 countries—Finland, Jamaica and Germany among them—have female heads of state. GOOD and Open take a look at the gender imbalance among the world’s leaders.

See the Girl Power transparency.

Filed under: Magazine : Transparency
Categories: Politics

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DISCUSSION: 6 Comments

- Posted by: ankush
- on August 24, 2007 at 2:42 pm
India President is eleventh in your list.
- Posted by: teraflopz
- on August 27, 2007 at 8:55 am
My take on Pratibha Patil. The situation is just looking much better now.
- Posted by: ermighty
- on August 27, 2007 at 1:23 pm
a little bit more perspective might help too. There are two great comparative bar graphs at the bottom of the article. But I’d love to see one more showing the percentage of the world population LED by women. The fact that only five percent of the world leaders are women is daunting enough, but I’m willing to bet the percentage of the world population that they head is closer to 2 or 3 percent (I’m thinking India, China, etc. here).

Thanks for the great post!
- Posted by: ermighty
- on August 27, 2007 at 1:24 pm
I should have read the comment above my own. Good work India!
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- Posted by: allanb
- on September 6, 2009 at 6:24 am
Israel has had one female prime minister and elected one in the lastest elections however, due to coalition politics, she was set aside.