Women In Power Across Europe
Elisabeth Borne, a 61-year-old engineer, was named French prime minister on Monday, becoming only the second woman to hold the position after Edith Cresson, a Socialist, who lasted less than a year in the job in the early 1990s.
Borne is one of nearly a dozen female political leaders in Europe, where Ursula von der Leyen became the first president of the European Commission in December 2019.
We look at the situation across the continent:
- Denmark -
Social Democrat leader Mette Frederiksen became her country's youngest-ever prime minister in June 2019 when she was elected premier at the age of 41.
Denmark's first woman prime minister was Helle Thorning-Schmidt, also from the Social Democrats, who served from 2011 to 2015.
- Estonia -
Former EU auditor Kersti Kalju...