"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
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
Ros Ball is an author and former BBC broadcast journalist, working for many years on politics in Westminster. In 2017 she published The Gender Agenda, a first-hand account of how boys and girls are treated differently. She currently works on equalities policy for women and girls. @rosballEmmy Lupin is a freelance illustrator from Nottingham, based in London. Her work is often female focused, with a powerful and positive stance. Expect styling to be decorative, using pastel colours and patterns but with an edge of attitude. Find her drinking coffee, obsessing over plants, and drawing on Instagram. @emmylupinstudio