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Female, left wing, unmarried, childless, agnostic leader

in Germany there was or is a female childless unmarried family minister.
but as she is from the CDU she is most probably not agnostic.
 
I know absolutely nothing about this woman other that what you just told me.

Shouldn't matter IMO. What should matter is what she says and does. A woman with those attributes could be successful or unsuccessful. Let's not presume that her success or failure will be because of those attributes.

That said, being unmarried and childless could be an advantage if she is totally focused on her career. No possibility for a scandal involving a spouse either.
 
she hasn't managed to get herself a husband, how on earth is she supposed to lead a country? :D
 
Mame Madior BoyeWP No spouse or religion mentioned by wiki but then again the article is a stub.
 
Mari KiviniemiWP is from a "centre party" arguably liberal, Internationally affiliated with Liberal International.
 
Elizabeth of Russia, possibly. Not sure of the depth of her religious views, if any, but I'd suspect she wasn't terribly pious in private.
 
Do your criteria count for women who advance in politics after a divorce? If so, the best match I can think of is Vigdís Finnbogadóttir, the former President of Iceland. According to this biography, she was divorced before being elected president. She also has a daughter, but one through adoption, so again I'm not sure if that's how you mean "childless". As for religion, I don't know what Iceland was like in 1980, but agnosticism may be a safe bet.

Someone already mentioned Tarja Halonen of Finland. She left the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland in the 1960's, and decided not to rejoin them. She married only after having won elective office, and (from what I can tell) her kids don't seem to be from marriages.

And I'll mention Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir. Both have had very un-traditional relationship histories. I can't figure out when Jóhanna was divorced, but she's been in the Althing so long, I expect that she won at least one election between her divorce from her husband and her later marriage to her wife. She does have two kids, though.
 
Helen Clark seems to fit the criteria, up to a point. The Wikipedia article about her quotes a book that suggests she married under pressure from her party after being elected to the New Zealand Parliament in 1981. She apparently wed "despite her own feelings about marriage". Either way, she wasn't married when she won that office, but she was when she became Prime Minister.
 
Undesired Walrus said:
Left as in liberal, or left as in democratic socialist?
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lionking said:
Good question. Over here it would be democratic socialist. In her younger days she was the head of the Australian Union of Students, which is well left of centre.
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Maybe during her Student days she could be considered very left wing. But right now she's what most in Europe and Australia would call Centre-Left.
 
The polls have moved decisivly. In the absence of any major stuff up in the next few months, Gillard should win easily.
 
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