Most significant country (except the US) to never have a female head of state?

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Dilma Rousseff was president of Brazil between 2011 and 2016

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France never had a female head of state. The french head of state is the president. All the french presidents were male. There was a female prime minister. But the prime minister is the head of government.

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Answering this question literally, the Federal Republic of Germany never had a female head of state. All the FRG presidents were male. Angela Merkel, the chancellor, is the head of government. But I understood the question. The author of the thread was asking about the most important leaders. And the most important leader of the FRG is the chancellor. The president of the FRG is like the queen of England. German Democratic Republic had a female president, the last president of the country, in 1990.

France had a socialist female prime minister during the presidency of Mitterrand. If she ruled during the cohabitation, it would be possible to say that France was already led by a woman. But when the president and the prime minister of France belong to the same party, the prime minister is just a powerful minister.