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The Woman King is a 2022 American historical action-adventure film about the Agojie, the all-female warrior unit that protected the West African kingdom of Dahomey during the 17th to 19th centuries. Set in the 1820s, the film stars Viola Davis as a general who trains the next generation of warriors to fight their enemies.
The first woman elected president of a country was Vigdís Finnbogadóttir of Iceland, who won the 1980 presidential election as well as three subsequent elections, remaining in office for a total of 16 years, which makes her the longest-serving non-hereditary female head of state in history.
Jul 15, 2024 · The first woman to be elected to the office, Tsai is the seventh president of the Republic of China under the 1947 Constitution and the second president from the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP); part of Taiwan's Pan-Green Coalition.
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Jul 30, 2020 · She was the first woman to be democratically elected president in any nation on June 29, 1980. She won the simple plurality vote with 33.8% of the votes, ahead of Guðlaugur Thisorvaldsson (32.3%), Albert Guðmundsson (19.8%), and Pétur J. Thorsteinsson (14.1%).
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- Laura Roslin on Battlestar Galactica. Leading the United States would be small potatoes for Laura Roslin on Battlestar Galactica: She's responsible for leading the last survivors of humanity in a war against extinction.
- Allison Taylor on 24. The Kiefer Sutherland-helmed thriller series 24 introduces the nation's (and the show's) first female president in its seventh season amid several crises, including the death of her son.
- Selina Meyer on Veep. Julia Louis-Dreyfus won six Primetime Emmy awards as Selina Meyer, the titular vice president on HBO's political satire, Veep. Meyer becomes president in season four, after the president resigns.
- Mackenzie Allen on Commander in Chief. It's only fitting that Academy Award-winning actor Geena Davis, who founded the Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media in 2004 to foster inclusion and gender balance onscreen, serves as the leader of the free world in the drama Commander in Chief.
Sep 28, 2020 · Hillary Clinton and Michelle Obama (Getty Images) The United States of America has not seen a female president yet, but the country may get its first female vice-president if Joe Biden and Kamala Harris win the 2020 election.
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Feb 5, 2020 · In 1980, as a divorced, single mother, Finnbogadóttir won election as Iceland’s first female leader, becoming the first woman in the world to be democratically elected president.
