Let's Have a look on The Top Ten Women Of The World On This Women's Day
1. Angela Merkel, Chancellor of Germany
Angela Merkel has a physics doctorate and was named the world’s most powerful woman in 2015 by Forbes magazine.
Merkel, 62, became Germany’s first woman chancellor in 2005 and has led the biggest economy in Europe ever since, winning a third four-year term in 2013. She is a key world leader whose opinion carries weight during financial and economic crises, on political issues and the question of global migration.
2. Theresa May, UK’s second woman prime minister — after Margaret Thatcher
May, 59, became Britain’s second woman prime minister — after Margaret Thatcher — on July 13, following the resignation of David Cameron. He quit after Britons voted to leave the European Union.
3. Hillary Clinton, Politician
Clinton, 68, a former US first lady (1993-2001), New York State senator and secretary of state under President Barack Obama, now eyes the White House herself, having become the first woman to win a major party’s nomination in the 2016 presidential election.
4. Aung San Suu Kyi, Nobel Peace Prize laureate and Myanmar State Counsellor.
The 71-year-old Nobel Peace Prize laureate, a democratic icon in Myanmar, was barred from becoming president by a constitution inherited from the country’s military junta.
Instead, after years under house arrest and landmark November 2015 elections, she became state counsellor, the de facto prime minister, and placed a man from her inner circle in the presidential role.
5. Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, the president of Liberia also Africa’s first elected woman president.
Dubbed the “Iron Lady”, Liberia’s Sirleaf, 77, made history when she became Africa’s first elected woman president in November 2005. She then also won the Nobel Peace Prize.
6. Michelle Bachelet, the president of Chile
Chile’s Bachelet, 64, is the only woman leader now in power in Latin America.
A former opposition leader who was tortured under the regime of Augusto Pinochet, she was also the region’s first woman defence minister before serving as president of Chile from January 2006-2010. In December 2013, Bachelet won a second term.
7. Christine Lagarde, first woman to head the International Monetary Fund (IMF)
Lagarde, 60, is the first woman to head the International Monetary Fund, taking over in 2011 in the midst of a debt crisis. She has just been reappointed as head of the IMF. A former corporate lawyer, Lagarde was also France’s first woman finance minister.
8. Janet Yellen, head of the US Federal Reserve.
Yellen, 69, was named in 2013 as head of the US Federal Reserve, a post held exclusively by men until then. A former Harvard University professor, she was also former US president Bill Clinton’s chief economist.
9. Irina Bokova, the first woman to head the UN cultural organisation UNESCO
She is on the short list of candidates for the post of UN secretary general.
10. Margaret Chan, Director-general of the World Health Organization
A 68-year-old physician who headed Hong Kong’s health department during bird flu and SARS epidemics, Chan is director-general of the World Health Organization and has made women’s health a priority for that UN body.