On May 6, 1979, the country was still getting used to the idea of having its first woman prime minister.
She is set to become Thailand's first woman prime minister.
They decided that a woman prime minister was repugnant to Islam.
She was the first woman minister ordained in the state of Wisconsin.
We had a woman prime minister, so why not a president?
So what kind of Britain did the country's first woman prime minister come to rule in 1979 - and how has it changed?
But we can't deny that having our first woman prime minister was a major symbolic leap forward.
She is unique in British history as a pioneering woman prime minister.
In 1928, Broadway continued to break new ground by taking the rare action of ordaining a woman minister.
She was the first (and only) woman minister of the presidency.