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On 21 February 1950 Ethiopian politician Sahle-Work Zewde was born. Sahle-Work Zewde “is the current President of Ethiopia and the first woman to hold the office. A career diplomat, she was elected president unanimously by members of the Federal Parliamentary Assembly on 25 October 2018. Sahle-Work was previously Special Representative of United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres to the African Union and Head of the United Nations Office to the African Union at the level of Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations.

American business magazine Forbes, on its annual edition of the Forbes list of The World's 100 Most Powerful Women, listed Sahle-Work as the 96th most powerful woman in the world, and the highest-ranking African woman on the list.”
(From the English Wikipedia. Wikipedia cites Sahle-Work' Zewde’s name according to Ethiopian custom.)

Selected Publications

Gendered inequalities and media representation: Social media contestations on Ethiopia's 'gender-balanced' political leadership / Tigist Shewarega Hussen.
In: Agenda (Durban), 2020-01-02, Vol.34 (1), p.55-63

Social media trivialization of the increasing participation of women in politics in Ethiopia / Bruktawit Ejigu Kassa; Katharine Sarikakis.
In: Journal of African media studies, 2019-03-01, Vol.11 (1), p.21-33

Women In Leadership: A Q&A with President Sahle-Work Zewde. - Deliver for Good, September 2019 (accessed on 11 February 2021)

Women in modern Ethiopia. - Tokyo : Institute of Asian, African and Middle Eastern studies, 2018

Participation of women in politics and public decision making in Ethiopia / Meaza Ashenafi; Yamāhbarāwi ṭenāt madrak (Ethiopia). - Addis Ababa : Forum for Social Studies, 2009

Women's participation in political leadership and decision-making in Ethiopia: a research note / Berouk Mesfin.
In: Ethiopian Journal of the Social Sciences and Humanities. Volume 2 #2. December. p. 81-100, 2004

Siniddu Gebru: pioneer woman writer, feminist, patriot, educator, and politician / Reidulf Knut Molvaer.
In: Northeast African studies : incorporating Ethiopianist notes , n.s., vol. 4, no. 3, p. 61-75

For more publications see the ASCL Library Catalogue.

Ethiopia's gender revolution: President Sahle-Work Zewde speaks to FRANCE 24, 30. Okt. 2019

Picture gallery, via Wikidata: Ethiopian women in politics