Who was Germany's first female chancellor, from 2005 to 2021?
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Angela Merkel
A trained physicist, she shaped German and European politics for 16 years.
💡 Did you know? She was long regarded as one of the most powerful women in the world.
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Who was a lawyer, US First Lady (2009 to 2017), and wrote 'Becoming'?
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Michelle Obama
She campaigned for healthy eating and education, among other causes.
💡 Did you know? 'Becoming' became one of the best-selling memoirs ever.
Who became the first female Vice President of the United States?
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Kamala Harris
She was also the first person of African-American and South Asian descent in the office.
💡 Did you know? She had previously been a senator and California's attorney general.
Who, as a political theorist, coined the phrase 'the banality of evil'?
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Hannah Arendt
The German-American thinker fled the Nazis.
💡 Did you know? Her work analyses the origins of totalitarian rule.
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Who was the US First Lady who helped shape the Universal Declaration of Human Rights?
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Eleanor Roosevelt
She was an influential diplomat and human-rights advocate.
💡 Did you know? She chaired the UN Human Rights Commission.
Who was the first and so far only female Prime Minister of India?
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Indira Gandhi
She shaped India's politics for many years and was assassinated in 1984.
💡 Did you know? She was the daughter of first PM Nehru: not related to Mahatma Gandhi.
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