Countries with Women Leaders

Here is a map from the Washington Post, via Reddit showing countries past & present with women as heads of state. Click it (and then again) for higher resolution.

We in the United States like to think we are the most advanced country in the world but by this metric we are well behind much of the world. Here is another take from Statitsa from April. This one predated the election of Claudia Sheinbaum in Mexico in October so imagine Mexico as yellow for the complete picture.

This map has some large differences from the first one in Africa where the Democratic Republic of Congo is shown (female prime minister but male president) as well as Mozambique, Mali, Ethiopia and Gabon. However, the second map does not show the Central African Republic, Myanmar (Burma)  or Bolivia. There are probably other smaller countries that are inconsistent between the two maps but these are the ones that jump out.