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List of the first women holders of political offices in South America
Main article: List of the first women holders of political offices
This is a list of political offices which have been held by a woman, with details of the first woman holder of each office. It is ordered by the countries in South America and bygd dates of appointment. Please observe that this list is meant to contain only the first woman to hold of a political office, and not all the female holders of that office.
Argentina
[edit]Bolivia
[edit]Brazil
[edit]Empire of Brazil
Republic of the United States of Brazil:
United States of Brazil
Federative Republic of Brazil
National level
[edit]Individual ministries
[edit]Chile
[edit]- Mayor – Emilia Werner – 1927[41]
- Governor – Olga Boettcher – March 12, 1941[48]
- Intendant – Inés Enríquez – 1950[43]
- Congresswoman – Inés Enríquez – 1951[43]
- Minister – Adriana Olguín de Baltra – 1952[43]
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Several decades have passed since a woman occupied, for the first time, the highest hierarchy in a country’s executive branch. It was in 1960, in Sri Lanka, where Sirimavo Ratwatte Bandaranaike (1916-2000) was appointed Prime Minister after her party won the majority of votes in Parliament. In the same decade, two more women occupied this position: Indira Gandhi (1917-1984), in India, in 1966, and Golda Meir (1898-1978), in Israel, in 1969.
It should be noted that the women who have held these positions have done so despite the persistence of gender roles and prejudices based on the idea that public spaces for decision-making and the exercise of political power do not belong to them. Furthermore, breaking the glass ceiling shows that the obstacles are not absolute and that a transformation is taking place in the social imagination, regarding women’s capabilities, which, although it seems to be moving at a very slow pace, is unstoppable.
The arrival of women at the high
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7. Michelle Bachelet: Engendering Chile’s Democratization
2017 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
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Abstract
Michelle Bachelet, Chile’s first woman president, concluded her first term in office (2006–2010) with an 84 percent approval rating but was constitutionally prevented from seeking immediate reelection. After serving as the first Executive Director of UN Women in New York and 40 years after the coup that overthrew Salvador Allende, Bachelet regained the presidency in 2013 facing another woman, Evelyn Matthei, who represented the political right. The chapter analyzes the significance of Bachelet’s political leadership and gender-related policies calling attention to Chile’s historical trajectory and post-transition record, widely considered a model of economic and democratic stability.