Women currently serve as the head of government in just 13 of the 193 member states of the United Nations. This includes Mexico, where President Claudia Sheinbaum was sworn in as the country’s first female executive this week.

Mexico is one of nine countries where the current woman head of government is the country’s first, according to a Pew Research Center analysis.

Overall, 60 UN member states (31%) have ever had a woman serve as head of government. The first was Sri Lanka, then called Ceylon, where Sirimavo Bandaranaike began her first term as prime minister in 1960. Two other countries – India in 1966 and Israel in 1969 – saw their first women leaders during that decade.

Read more at: https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2024/10/03/women-leaders-around-the-world/