List of the first women heads of government and state in Muslim-majority countries
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List of the first women heads of government and state in Muslim-majority countries

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Portrait	Head of Government or State	Country	Status	In office (first time)

-	Benazir Bhutto	Pakistan	Prime Minister of Pakistan	2 December 1988 – 6 August 1990

-	Khaleda Zia	Bangladesh	Prime Minister of Bangladesh	20 March 1991 – 30 March 1996

-	Sheikh Hasina	23 June 1996 – 15 July 2001

-	Tansu Çiller	Turkey	Prime Minister of Turkey	25 June 1993 – 6 March 1996

Mame Madior Boye	Senegal	Prime Minister of Senegal	3 March 2001 – 4 November 2002

-	Aminata Touré	3 September 2013 – 8 July 2014

-	Megawati Sukarnoputri	Indonesia	President of Indonesia	23 July 2001 – 20 October 2004

-	Atifete Jahjaga	Kosovo	President of Kosovo	7 April 2011 – 7 April 2016

-	Roza Otunbayeva	Kyrgyzstan	President of Kyrgyzstan	7 April 2010 – 1 December 2011

Cissé Mariam Kaïdama Sidibé	Mali	Prime Minister of Mali	3 April 2011 – 22 March 2012

-	Ameenah Gurib	Mauritius	President of Mauritius	5 June 2015 – 23 March 2018

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Megawati was Indonesia's first female president.

final_sentence: Megawati was Indonesia's first female president.