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From: mmt@dciem.UUCP (Martin Taylor)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Women Heads of State
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Date: Sun, 28-Oct-84 14:05:11 EST
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Posted: Sun Oct 28 14:05:11 1984
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> A.  It seems that there have been (including the present) four
>     women head of states.
> 
>       1. Sirimao Bandarnaike - Sri Lanka
>       2. Indira Gandhi       - India
>       3. Golda Mayer         - Israel
>       4. Margaret Thatcher   - U.K.
> 
What about:
        Nefertiti (Eqypt)
        Cleopatra (Eqypt)
        Boadicea (ancient Britain)
        Isabella of Spain
        Mary, Queen of Scots
        Mary I of England
        Elizabeth I of England
        Christina of Sweden
        Mary (of William and Mary)
        Catherine the Great of Russia
        Queen Victoria
        Juliana of the Netherlands
        (?) Peron of Argentina (not Eva, but the recent one)
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Some of these were/are leaders but not heads of state, others heads
of state but not leaders.  I think the point was about leaders.  In
the US, there is no difference, but in most countries there is.
Margaret Thatcher is not Head of State; another woman is.  But Thatcher
got Britain into an expensive war (and got re-elected for it -- Reagan
noticed), Elizabeth II did not.
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Martin Taylor
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