... certainly true in the secular world. The twenty-first century has seen the Harvard-educated Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf elected as President of Liberia, Africa’s first female president. Angela Merkel has been one of the longest serving chancellors of Germany. Michelle Bachelet was elected president of Chile, the first woman to lead a major Latin American country. Since the 1990s, more than thirty women have become heads of government. In the 1950s there was just one (Suhbaataryn Yanjmaa, president of Mongolia ...
