These women run their countries
Helen Clark
Helen Elizabeth Clark has been Prime Minister of New Zealand since 1999 and is currently into her third term.
Born in 1950, she has worked with the New Zealand Labour Party for most of her life. Before becoming PM, she was a lecturer in political science. Then, politics beckoned and she went on to become the seventeenth woman elected to the NZ parliament.
Clark knows a lot about governance. She has, in the past, held the titles of Minister of Housing and Conservation, Minister of Health, Minister of Labour and Deputy Prime Minister. As for how good she is at her job, at the time of elections in 2005, her country had the lowest unemployment rate of all industrial nations.
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