WOMEN WHO WON

Do you know who was the first woman elected to run a country? The youngest woman to become head of government? The first Black female candidate to seek nomination for the US presidency? Author and former political journalist Ros Ball thinks it’s high time for these women who helped shape our world to become household names.

Women Who Won features 70 extraordinary women from the last 100 years: politicians from around the globe who fought for election in a man’s world – and won. It includes well-known figures such as Kamala Harris, Jacinda Ardern and Golda Meir, as well as lesser-known women including Georgina Beyer, the first trans woman to be elected to parliament; Vigdís Finnbogadóttir, former president of Iceland and the first woman democratically elected to be president; and Yulia Tymoshenko, the first woman to become prime minister of Ukraine. This book, illustrated throughout with original, full-colour portraits by artist Emmy Lupin, brings them at last to the fore.