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#OnThisDay, 14 Mar 2018, Angela Merkel is sworn in as Chancellor of Germany for the fourth time. #WomenInPolitics
Angela Merkel being sworn in as Chancellor in 2018. She is a white woman standing in front of a white man who is seated in a wheelchair.


#OnThisDay, 4 Mar 1933, Frances Perkins is sworn in as Secretary of Labor: the first woman to hold a cabinet post in the USA.

She was a workers-rights activist and key builder of the New Deal. She was in FDR's cabinet for all four terms of his Presidency.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #AmericanHistory #WomenInPolitics #Histodons

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Photo of Frances Perkins being sworn in, with a strong beam of light highlighting her. The rest of the people in the room are men


#OnThisDay, 4 Feb 1981, Dr Gro Harlem Brundtland becomes Prime Minister of Norway for the first of her three terms. She is the first woman to hold the role.

She was also Director General of the World Health Organisation between 1998 and 2003.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #WomenInPolitics #Histodons
Dr Gro Harlem in her office in 1981. She is a white woman, and is gesturing at a wall of photos and paintings of previous Prime Ministers (all white, all male).


#OnThisDay, 1 Feb 2009, Johanna Sigurdardottir becomes the Prime Minister of Iceland. She was the first openly LGBT head of a government in the world.

#WomenInPolitics
Johanna Sigurdardottir at the time of her election. She is a white woman with white hair.