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The United States may (I hope) get their first female president soon and here in Sweden we haven't even had a female prime minister. I think that is a shame!
Anyway, here are the names of female heads of state in modern times, past and present:

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Khertek (Amichmaa-Toka), Republic of Tuva (part of Russia)

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Sükhbaataryn (Yanjimaa), Mongolia (sükh apparently means "ear" as in ear of corn and I guess baataryn is "heroine")

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Soong Ching-ling, China

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Isabel (Martinez de Perón), Argentina

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Lidia (Gueiler Tejada), Bolivia

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Vigdis (Finnbogadóttir), Iceland

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Maria Lea (Perdini-Angelini), San Marino

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Agata (Barbara), Malta

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Gloriana (Ranocchini), San Marino

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Carmen (Pereira), Guinea-Bissau

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Elisabeth (Kopp), Switzerland

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Corazón (Aquino), the Philippines

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Ertha (Pascal-Trouillot), Haiti

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Sabine (Bergmann-Pohl), East Germany

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Violeta (Chamorro), Nicaragua

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Mary (Robinson), Ireland

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Edda (Ceccoli), San Marino

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Ruth (Dreifuss), Switzerland

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Patrizia (Busignani), San Marino

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Sylvie (Kinigi), Burundi

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Chandrika (Kumaratunga), Sri Lanka

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Ruth (Perry), Liberia

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Rosalía (Arteaga Serrano), Ecuador

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Mary (McAleese), Ireland

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Janet (Jagan), Guyana

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Ruth (Metzler-Arnold), Switzerland

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Rosa (Zafferani), San Marino

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Vaira (Vīķe-Freiberga), Latvia

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Mireya (Moscoso), Panama

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Tarja (Halonen), Finland

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Maria Domenica (Michelotti), San Marino

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Gloria (Macapagal-Arroyo) the Philippines

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Megawati (Sukarnoputri), Indonesia

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Micheline (Calmy-Rey), Switzerland

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Valeria (Ciavatta), San Marino

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Nino (Burjanadze), Georgia

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Barbara (Prammer), Austria

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Fausta (Morganti), San Marino

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Ellen (Johnson Sirleaf), Liberia (incumbent)

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Michelle (Bachelet), Chile (incumbent)

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Doris (Leuthard), Switzerland (incumbent)

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Dalia (Itzik), Israel

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Pratibha (Patil), India

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Cristina (Fernández de Kirchner), Argentina

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Eveline (Widmer-Schlumpf), Switzerland

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Assunta (Meloni), San Marino

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Rose Francine (Rogombé), Gabon

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Dalia (Grybauskaitė), Lithuania (incumbent)

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Roza (Otunbayeva), Kyrgyzstan

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Laura (Chinchilla), Costa Rica

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Simonetta (Sommaruga), Switzerland (incumbent)

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Dilma (Rouseff), Brazil (incumbent)

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Maria Luisa (Berti), San Marino

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Atifete (Jahjaga), Kosovo

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Monique (Ohsan Bellepeau), Mauritius

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Slavica (Đukić Dejanović), Serbia

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Joyce (Banda), Malawi

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Denize (Bronzetti), San Marino

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Park Geun-hye, South Korea

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Antonella (Mularoni), San Marino

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Anna Maria (Muccioli), San Marino

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Catherine (Samba-Panza), Central African Republic

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Marie Louise (Coleiro Preca), Malta (incumbent)

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Kolinda (Grabar-Kitarović), Croatia (incumbent)

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Ameenah (Gurib), Mauritius (incumbent)

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Lorella (Stefanelli), San Marino

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Bidhya Devi (Bhandari), Nepal (incumbent)

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Hilda (Heine), Marshall Islands (incumbent)

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Tsai Ing-wen, Taiwan (incumbent)

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Doris (Bures), Austria (incumbent)

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Dame Elmira Minita (Gordon), Belize

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Jeanne (Sauvé), Canada

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Dame Nita (Barrow), Barbados

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Dame Catherine (Tizard), New Zealand

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Dame Pearlette (Louisy), Saint Lucia (incumbent)

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Adrienne (Clarkson), Canada

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Dame Sian (Elias), New Zealand

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Dame Silvia (Cartwright), New Zealand

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Dame Ivy (Dumont), Bahamas

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Monica (Dacon), Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

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Michaëlle (Jean), Canada

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Emmanuelle (Mignon), Andorra

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Dame Louise (Lake-Tack), Antigua and Barbuda

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Dame Quentin (Bryce), Australia

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Sylvie (Hubac), Andorra

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Sandra (Mason), Barbados

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Dame Cécile (La Grenade), Grenada (incumbent)

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Dame Marguerite (Pindling), Bahamas (incumbent)

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Dame Patsy (Reddy), New Zealand

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Does the sea exist
Because of our longing?

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My PNL
http://www.behindthename.com/pnl/3258/61573