(CNN) — This year, 45 countries in the United Nations held national elections to decide their top leadership. Of those, only four selected a woman to ... As the vice president, she took over ...

Mexico is poised to elect its first female president ... countries that have been led by a woman at some point in their history, although there are still a number of nations that have never had ...

Vice President Kamala Harris’s loss in this ... led any country as president or prime minister. See how many countries have had women as heads of state or government during your lifetime.

Vice president Kamala Harris is running ... Yet many Americans don’t know that the country already effectively had a woman president. In 1919 Woodrow Wilson suffered a stroke that left him ...

The two elections had different results. Claudia Sheinbaum won the highest office in Mexico while Vice President ... the first elected woman president of their respective countries?

The country’s first vice president, John Adams, had a view of the role’s limits from the very birth of the republic. Referring to himself as “a mere Doge of Venice,” Adams called the ...

This year, 45 countries ... four selected a woman to become head of state or government, according to CNN’s analysis of International Foundation for Electoral Systems data. While the US had the ...