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󾱲ԲԲDzóٳپ

[ fin-boh-guh-daw-ter; Icelandic fin-baw-gah-doh-tir ]

noun

  1. վ·í [vig, -dees], born 1930, Icelandic political leader: president 1980–96, the first woman in the world to be elected head of state in a democratic national election.


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Former Icelandic president Vigdís 󾱲ԲԲDzóٳپ told the BBC in 2015 that the 1975 strike was "the first step for women's emancipation in Iceland," which paved the way for her to become the first woman to be democratically elected head of state in the world in 1980.

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Iceland's Vigdis Finnbogadottir was the first woman to be democratically elected as head of state by voters when she defeated three men for the presidency in 1980.

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I am the daughter of a woman called Vigdís 󾱲ԲԲDzóٳپ.

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When Vigdís 󾱲ԲԲDzóٳپ, a divorced single mother, ran for president of Iceland in 1980, women made up only 5% of parliamentarians in the Nordic country.

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After 󾱲ԲԲDzóٳپ made history in 1980, female political participation in Iceland soared, leading it to become the most gender-equal parliament in the world among countries without a quota system.

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