Women Who Won

Did you know that Sirimavo Bandaranaike of Sri Lanka was the first woman in the world to become a democratically elected prime minister?


That Tina Anselmi of Italy was a wartime resistance fighter who became the first woman to serve as a cabinet minister?


Or that Sylvie Kinigi of Burundi was the first woman to serve as a prime minister in Africa?


It is high time these extraordinary women who helped shape our world became household names, and this book brings them at last to the fore.


Women Who Won is a celebration of 70 women from the last 100 years: politicians from around the globe who fought for election in a man's world... and won. Beautifully illustrated by artist Emmy Lupin, it features well-known figures, including Kamala Harris, Benazir Bhutto, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Jacinda Ardern and Julia Gillard, alongside lesser-known women whose stories are ready to be heard:


Shidzue Kat , one of the first women elected to the Diet of Japan


Yulia Tymoshenko, the first woman prime minister of Ukraine


Shirley Chisholm, the first Black woman elected to the US Congress


Peri-Khan Sofieva, the first democratically elected Muslim woman


Ethel Blondin-Andrew, the first Indigenous woman elected to Canadian parliament


Women of the past, but also women of the present and future. Women who smashed the political glass ceiling. Women who fought to leave a positive legacy for future generations. Women who paved the way for girls of today to become women who won.

Inhaltsverzeichnis:

Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir



Iceland



Fiam Naomi Mata afa



Samoa



Shirley Chisholm



USA



Margaret Thatcher



UK



Megawati Sukarnoputri



Indonesia



Sahle-Work Zewde



Ethiopia



Tina Anselmi



Italy



Vaira Vi e-Freiberga



Latvia



Sylvie Kinigi



Burundi



Miina Sillanpää



Finland



Joyce Banda



Malawi



Berta Pipi a



Latvia



Portia Simpson-Miller



Jamaica



Graça Machel



Mozambique



Leyla Zana



Turkey



Maureen Colquhoun



UK



Cristina Fernández de Kirchner



Argentina



Ella Koblo Gulama



Sierra Leone
Birtukan Mideksa



Ethiopia



Jadranka Kosor



Croatia



Isabel Ursula Teshea



Trinidad and Tobago



Golda Meir



Israel



Jeannette Rankin



USA



Gro Harlem Brundtland



Norway



Maria de Lourdes Pintasilgo



Portugal



Laura Chinchilla



Costa Rica



Iriaka Ratana



New Zealand



Marie Juchacz



Germany



Jahanara Shahnawaz



India



Eugenia Charles



Dominica



Dilma Rousseff



Brazil

Rezension:

"These profiles-two-page summaries of the lives and achievements of 70 women in the political realm-present an extensive and impressive collection of global leaders, many less well-known, from the 19th century to contemporary times. The geographical representation is broad...riveting." - Kirkus
"Adults will also learn a great deal from this book, because many of these women may be unknown to most readers. It is refreshing to have women across the globe recognized. The beautiful illustrations make the book an even more interesting read. Ros Ball and Emmy Lupin should be commended and encouraged to work together, as the words and images compliment each other so well." - Youth Services Book Review