Sri Lanka’s election sees surge in female candidates, but can it break patriarchal norms?
While analysts welcome the increase, they caution that more women in politics alone won’t challenge patriarchal norms and ...
The Daily Mirror1d
SJB will survive tremors: Imtiyaz
“Late President J.R. Jayewardene proposed that the UNP should support the SLFP-led government of late Premier Sirimavo Bandaranaike in 1970 after the latter obtained a two-thirds majority. However, ...
Island29d
My Wedding, my father’s funeral and a portrait of Mr. Bandaranaike
The prime minister was busy that afternoon with the budget debate in Parliament but his wife, Sirimavo Bandaranaike, came and stayed for a long while. The other event, the death of my father, a month ...
The U.S. has never been led by a woman. See how many countries have been.
(That’s not counting monarchs.) The first was Sirimavo Bandaranaike of Sri Lanka (then Ceylon) in 1960, who rose to power ...
The Sunday Times13y
When Sirimavo made history
With the book ‘SIRIMAVO Honouring the world’s first woman Prime Minister’ to be released on December 7 to commemorate the 50th anniversary of this momentous event, Kumudini Hettiarachchi speaks to ...
'Putting a woman at the head of the UN is key to rebuilding a functioning global order'
OP-ED. With women's rights being eroded in many parts of the world, Fabienne Hara, Najat Vallaud-Belkacem, Arancha González ...
Map Shows All the Countries That Have Women Leaders
As the U.S. election grows closer, so do the chances that the U.S. could join the ranks of nations that have elected women heads of state.
The Sunday Times3y
SIRIMAVO second edition out
The first edition of SIRIMAVO: Honouring the world’s first woman Prime Minister received an excellent reception. This book was released in December 2010 at an impressive ceremony in the Bandaranaike ...
scmp.com4d
Sri Lanka’s election sees surge in female candidates, but can it break patriarchal norms?
Sri Lanka has a notable legacy of female leadership. In 1960, when the country was known as Ceylon, Sirimavo Bandaranaike was elected the world’s first woman prime minister. She took office ...
Map Shows All the Countries That Have Women Leaders
The first female world leader was elected in Sri Lanka, then known as Ceylon, when Sirimavo Bandaranaike became prime ...