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List Of The First Female Members Of Parliament By Country
This is a list of the first female members of parliament in each country and territory. Princess Isabel of Brazil could have become the first female parliamentarian in 1871, as the Brazilian constitution reserved a seat in the Senate for the heir presumptive to the throne once they reached 25 years of age. However, she did not take the seat she was entitled to. Instead, the first female parliamentarians came from the Grand Duchy of Finland, where 19 women were elected to the Eduskunta in 1907.Mart Martin (2000) ''The Almanac of Women and Minorities in World Politics'', p131 The first female parliamentarian in a fully-independent country was Anna Rogstad of Norway, who took her seat in the Storting as a substitute in 1911, while the first woman directly elected to parliament in an independent country was Jeannette Rankin of the United States, who was elected to the House of Representatives in 1916, taking office the following year. In some cases – such as Grace Schneiders-Howard ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Isabel, Princess Imperial Of Brazil
, house = Braganza , father = Pedro II of Brazil , mother = Teresa Cristina of the Two Sicilies , birth_date = , birth_place = Palace of São Cristóvão, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil , death_date = , death_place = Château d'Eu, Eu, France , burial_date = , burial_place = Cathedral of São Pedro de Alcântara, Petrópolis, Brazil , signature = Isabel princess imperial signature.png , signature_alt = Cursive signature in ink , religion = Roman Catholic ''Dona'' Isabel (29 July 1846 – 14 November 1921), nicknamed "the Redemptress", was the Princess Imperial (heir presumptive to the throne) of the Empire of Brazil and the Empire's regent on three occasions. Born in Rio de Janeiro as the eldest daughter of Emperor Pedro II of Brazil and Empress Teresa Cristina, she was a member of the Brazilian branch of the House of Braganza (Portuguese: ''Bragança''). After the deaths of her two brothers in infancy, she was recognized as her fa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Khadija Ahrari
Khadija Ahrari was an Afghan politician, and jointly the first woman elected to parliament in the country. Biography Following the introduction of women's suffrage in the 1964 constitution, Ahrari was one of four women elected to Parliament in the 1965 elections, representing Herat Herāt (; Persian: ) is an oasis city and the third-largest city of Afghanistan. In 2020, it had an estimated population of 574,276, and serves as the capital of Herat Province, situated south of the Paropamisus Mountains (''Selseleh-ye Safēd .... She was one of the first six women to be member of Parliament or Senate after the 1965 elections: Anahita Ratibzad of Kabul, Khadija Ahrari of Kabul, Ruqia Abubakr of Kandhahar and Masuma Esmati of Herat for the House of the People, and Homaira Saljuqi and Aziza Gardizi for the Senate. However, she did not contest the 1969 elections.Louis Dupree (2014''Afghanistan''Princeton University Press, p653 References Afghan feminists Living peo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alice Sportisse Gomez-Nadal
Alice Sportisse Gomez-Nadal (9 July 1909 - 3 June 1996) was a French-Algerian politician.Notice « Alice Sportisse née Cremadès », in Le Maitron Maghreb, volume Algérie : engagements sociaux et question nationale. De la colonisation à l'indépendance de 1830 à 1962 She was born in Sidi Lakhdar, Algeria (then known as Lavarande). She represented the Algerian Communist Party (PCA) in the Constituent Assembly elected in 1945, in the Constituent Assembly elected in 1946 and in the National Assembly In politics, a national assembly is either a unicameral legislature, the lower house of a bicameral legislature, or both houses of a bicameral legislature together. In the English language it generally means "an assembly composed of the repre ... from 1946 to 1955. References 1909 births 1996 deaths People from Aïn Defla Province People of French Algeria Pieds-Noirs Algerian Communist Party politicians Members of the Constituent Assembly of France (1945) Members of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1945 French Legislative Election
Legislative elections were held in France on 21 October 1945 to elect a Constituent Assembly to draft a constitution for a Fourth French Republic. 79.83% of voters participated. Women and soldiers were allowed to vote. 522 seats were elected through proportional representation. Parties and issues On 21 October 1945, the French voters were called to make two choices: the election of their deputies and a referendum in order to authorize the elected National Assembly to prepare a new constitutional text. De Gaulle and the " Three parties alliance" called for a "Yes" vote, whereas the Radicals and the Conservatives campaigned for a "No". Symbol of the French Resistance to the German occupation and founder of the Free French Forces General Charles de Gaulle led a provisional government composed of the three main political forces of the Resistance: the French Communist Party (PCF), the French Section of the Workers' International (socialists, SFIO) and the Christian democratic Popular ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Algeria
) , image_map = Algeria (centered orthographic projection).svg , map_caption = , image_map2 = , capital = Algiers , coordinates = , largest_city = capital , religion = , official_languages = , languages_type = Other languages , languages = Algerian Arabic (Darja) French , ethnic_groups = , demonym = Algerian , government_type = Unitary semi-presidential republic , leader_title1 = President , leader_name1 = Abdelmadjid Tebboune , leader_title2 = Prime Minister , leader_name2 = Aymen Benabderrahmane , leader_title3 = Council President , leader_name3 = Salah Goudjil , leader_title4 = Assembly President , leader_name4 = Ibrahim Boughali , legislature = Parliament , upper_house = Council of the Nation , lower_house ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ollga Plumbi
Ollga Plumbi (1898 – 1984) was an Albanian feminist, activist and politician. She also was elected as deputy of the Albanian parliament in 1945 but became known as one of the first feminists in Albania. Biography Ollga Plumbi, also known with her pen name Shpresa was born in the village of Lupckë of Përmet in 1898. After her husband died when she was young, she went to immigrate in the West to work in order to take care of her family and worked. She later returned to Albania and during 1936-1937 wrote in the publication "Bota e Re" along other progressive writers like Migjeni and Selim Shpuza. During the Second World War she became part of the anti-fascist movement and later was elected as the head of Women's Antifascist Council of Albania. In the elections of 1945 she became a deputy of the People's Parliament and was second most voted deputy, behind only Enver Hoxha. However soon she was removed from the post and sidelined from politics, but she still would write ext ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liri Gega
Liri Gega (1917 – December 1956) was an Albanian communist activist and politician. The only female founder member of the Communist Party of Albania, she was one of the first group of women elected to parliament in 1945. However, she was later executed after being accused of being a Yugoslavian agent. Biography Gega was born in Gjirokastër in 1917,Wojciech Roszkowski & Jan Kofman (2016) Biographical Dictionary of Central and Eastern Europe in the Twentieth Century', p280 to Asija and Beso Gega, a pharmacist and mayor of the town. After graduating from the Queen Mother Pedagogical Institute in Tirana, she won a state scholarship to study in Florence. However, she was arrested in 1940 and imprisoned for nearly two years. She was the only female founder member of the Communist Party in 1941 and became a member of its politburo in March 1943. During the Congress of Përmet in May 1944 she was elected to the Anti-Fascist National Liberation Council. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Naxhije Dume
Naxhije Dume (3 January 1921 – 29 September 2008) was an Albanian politician. She was one of the first group of female members of the Albanian parliament and the first female minister, serving briefly as Minister of Education in 1948. Biography Dume was born in Lubonjë in January 1921, the daughter of Vezirja and Dume Dumja.Naxhije Dume, ministrja e parë shqiptare, që u persekutua tërë jetën Tirana Observer, 1 November 2015 The family moved regularly due to her father's work and between 1933 and 1941 she was educated at the Queen Mother Pedagogical Institute. She subsequently became a teacher at the Avni Rustemi school in Tirana. She attended the first ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1945 Albanian Parliamentary Election
Parliamentary elections for a Constituent Assembly were held in Albania on 2 December 1945. Voters were presented with a single list from the Democratic Front, organized and led by the Communist Party of Albania. The Front won all 82 seats. Background As the Albanian National Liberation War of 1941-1944 came to a close, an interim Democratic Government of Albania was established on 20 October 1944 by a second meeting of the Anti-Fascist National Liberation Council (which had been established in Përmet in May that year) Its Prime Minister was Enver Hoxha, Secretary-General of the Communist Party of Albania. During the National Liberation War the Communist Party was the only consistent anti-fascist political and military force. Two rival organizations, the Balli Kombëtar and the Legaliteti, had their prestige amongst the populace tarnished through collaboration with the German occupiers against the partisan forces led by the Communists. By the end of the war both organizations ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Albania
Albania ( ; sq, Shqipëri or ), or , also or . officially the Republic of Albania ( sq, Republika e Shqipërisë), is a country in Southeastern Europe. It is located on the Adriatic and Ionian Seas within the Mediterranean Sea and shares land borders with Montenegro to the northwest, Kosovo to the northeast, North Macedonia to the east and Greece to the south. Tirana is its capital and largest city, followed by Durrës, Vlorë, and Shkodër. Albania displays varied climatic, geological, hydrological, and morphological conditions, defined in an area of . It possesses significant diversity with the landscape ranging from the snow-capped mountains in the Albanian Alps as well as the Korab, Skanderbeg, Pindus and Ceraunian Mountains to the hot and sunny coasts of the Albanian Adriatic and Ionian Sea along the Mediterranean Sea. Albania has been inhabited by different civilisations over time, such as the Illyrians, Thracians, Greeks, Romans, Byzantines, Venetians, and Ot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
International Quarterly For Asian Studies
The ''International Quarterly for Asian Studies'' is a biannual peer reviewed open access academic journal published since 1970 by the Arnold Bergstraesser Institute (Freiburg, Germany). Until 2016 its title was ''Internationales Asienforum''. The journal covers research on issues related to political, ecological, economic, and socio-cultural questions in Asia as well as on Asia's role within the international system. Abstracting and indexing The journal is abstracted and indexed in (under the name ''Internationales Asienforum''): * ATLA Religion Database * EBSCO databases *International Bibliography of Periodical Literature *International Bibliography of the Social Sciences *Modern Language Association Database * ProQuest databases History The journal was established in 1970 by Detlev Kantowsky (University of Konstanz) and Alois Graf von Waldburg-Zeil ( Weltforum Verlag) as the ''Internationales Asienforum''. Kantowsky was the founding editor until he was succeeded by Ekkehard ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Homeira Seljuqi
Homeira Malikyar Seljuqi (1912–1990) was an Afghan politician. Alongside Aziza Gardizi, she was one of the first two female Senators nominated in 1965. Biography Seljuqi's father died when she was a young girl. After being sent to India for treatment for an illness, Seljuqi met her future husband Salihuddin Seljuk, an Afghan consul.عالمه استاد صالح الدین سلجوقی Afghan German Following the 1965 parliamentary elections, the first in which women could vote and run for office, Seljuqi and Gardizi were appointed to the Senate by King |
