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8 Most Powerful Women Who Have Proven Their Steel In Politics
BENGALURU: Women have been playing a very important role in the world politics but somehow they are not in the lime light as many of us think. Breaking free from the clutches of patriarchy, some women have risen above the myths of women being incapable of taking important decisions. Let alone run entire nations, according to scoopwhoop.com.
Maneka Gandhi:
Maneka Sanjay Gandhi is the Indian Union Cabinet Minister for Women & Child Development in the Government of PM Narendra Modi. She is also an animal rights activist, environmentalist, and widow of the Indian politician, Sanjay Gandhi. She has been a minister in four governments, and has authored a number of books in the areas of etymology, law and animal welfare. Maneka Gandhi is a member of the Nehru-Gandhi Family.
Meira Kumar:
Meira Kumar is an Indian politician and a five time Member of Parliament. She was elected unopposed as the first woman Speaker of Lok Sabha and served from 2009 to 2014. She is a lawyer and a former diplomat. Prior to being a member of the 15th Lok Sabha, she has been elected earlier, to the 8th, 11th, 12th and 14th Lok Sabha.
She served as a Cabinet Minister in the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment of Manmohan Singh's Congress led Government (2004–2009).
Chhavi Rajawat:
Chhavi Rajawat is the sarpanch of her village Soda, 60 kilometres from Jaipur. Though holding an elected post, Chhavi is not affiliated to any political party. The Panchayats are officially supposed to be non-partisan and Panchayat elected representatives thereby, do not fit into the bracket of main stream politics. She holds a degree in MBA and ditched her corporate career and took the road less traveled to become India's youngest Sarpanch.
She has been working relentlessly to improve the conditions in her ancestral village and has been focusing on efforts to bring better water, solar power, paved roads, toilets and a bank to her village.
Sheikh Hasina Wazed:
Sheikh Hasina is the current Prime Minister of Bangladesh. She previously served as Prime Minister from 1996 to 2001 and she has led the Bangladesh Awami League since 1981. She is the eldest of five children of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, who is the founding father and first President of Bangladesh and widow of the nuclear scientist M. A. Wazed Miah.
Sheikha Lubna Al Qasimi:
Sheikha Lubna bint Khalid bin Sultan Al Qasimi is the Minister for Foreign Trade and was previously Minister of Economic and Planning of the United Arab Emirates. She was appointed on 1 November 2004. Sheikha Lubna holds the distinction of being the first woman to hold a ministerial post in the United Arab Emirates. She is a member of the ruling family of Sharjah and the niece to His Highness Dr. Sheikh Sultan bin Mohamed Al-Qasimi.
Lubna graduated from the California State University, Chico with a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science and has an Executive MBA from the American University of Sharjah. Lubna received an honorary doctorate of science from California State University, Chico. In March 2014, she was appointed President of Zayed University. As of 2015, she is listed as the 42nd most powerful woman in the world by Forbes.
Queen Rania:
Queen Rania is the Queen consort of Jordan. She is also known as Rania Al-Abdullah. Since marrying the now King of Jordan, Abdullah bin Al-Hussein, she has become known for her advocacy work related to education, health, community empowerment, youth, cross-cultural dialogue and micro-finance. She is also an avid user of social media and she maintains pages on Facebook, YouTube, Instagram and Twitter. She has two daughters and two sons and has been given various decorations by governments.
Angela Merkel:
German Chancellor Angela Merkel is the longest serving elected head of state of the European Union, after having clinched a third four-year term of Europe's most vibrant economy in December 2014. Not only was she instrumental in fighting off a national recession during the global economic crisis, she is also making efforts in aiding Greece in the revival of its economy. She has consistently appeared on the Forbes list of most powerful women in the world for ten years now.
Hilary Clinton:
Hilary Clinton is an American politician who served as the 67th United States Secretary of State under President Barack Obama from 2009 to 2013. She is the wife of the 42nd President of the United States Bill Clinton and was First Lady of the United States during his tenure from 1993 to 2001. Clinton subsequently served as a United States Senator from New York from 2001 to 2009 and is a candidate for President of the United States in the 2016 presidential election.
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