'woman president' yielded 6 matches.
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- Corazon Aquino Corazon Aquino was the first woman president of the Philippines and a Nobel Peace Prize nominee. She served as the president of the Philippines from 1986 to 1992 after her bloodless "People Power" revolution led to the ouster of former rule...
- Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo In 2001, Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo became the second woman to be swept into the Philippine Presidency by a peaceful People Power revolution. She was re-elected in 2004, winning with one million votes over her closest opponent.
- Mary McAleese Former law professor Mary McAleese is the first woman to succeed another as president, and is Ireland's current head of state. She took over leadership of the country from Mary Robinson. In 2008, she was ranked #74 on the Forbes list of most powerful...
- Olympia Snowe? As a little girl growing up in Iowa, I knew that while my mother was an equal partner with my father, women were not in government. Except for the woman who signed the money, and Senator Margaret Chase Smith. She replaced her husband, as many women d...
- First Woman To ... It never ceases to amaze me in this day and age to hear that someone is the first woman to do something. But given that we're on the verge of having our first serious female presidential candidate and possibly female president here in the United Stat...
- Politics: First Woman To ... The presidential campaign of Hillary Clinton has raised the role of women in politics back into the spotlight. While there hasn’t been a woman to hold the highest office in the United States before, women have held the top position in other cou...
