Women in 20th-21st centuries political dynasties - exploratory stage - ideas ?

[big bad fab]

A recent article in The Economist makes me revive an old idea I had about influential wives in politics.
I'd like to transform this idea and take widows, daughters, wives, relatives of important politicians who have themselves gained a political role of their own.

Unfortunately, some hadn't official roles, even after their husband's rule: Raisa Gorbacheva, Agathe Habyarimana, etc.
Others had more important posts than their husbands, like Clare Short.
All these aren't included.

Her's a first list.
I have still to work on the US, the last country I haven't made researches on .

Wives:
Soong Ai-ling
Soong Ching-ling
Soong May-ling
Jiang Qing
Rabri Devi
Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner
Sandra Torres
Eva Peron
Isabel Peron
Vilma Espin
Rosinha Garotinho
Susana Higuchi-Fujimori
Viola Burnham
Janet Jagan
Edna Manley
Hillary Clinton
Elizabeth Dole
Catherine Tizard
Nadezhda Krupskaya
Elena Ceausescu
Nexhmije Hoxha
Ana Botella
Alva Myrdal
Jennie Lee
Yvette Cooper
Glenys Kinnock
Ségolène Royal
Nana Konadu Rawlings
Winnie Madikizela-Mandela
Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma
Simone Gbagbo

Widows:
Khaleda Zia
Sonia Gandhi
Maneka Gandhi
Sirimavo Bandaranaike
Imelda Marcos
Corazon Aquino
Nayla Moawad
Nora Gunera de Melgar
Mireya Moscoso
Miria Obote

Sisters:
Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit
Yingluck Shinawatra
Hanne Harlem
Nita Barrow
Hilda Lini

Daughters:
Hasina Wajed
Chandrika Kumaratunga
Sunethra Bandaranaike
Megawati Sukarnoputri
Aung San Suu Kyi
Nurul Izzah Anwar
Gloria Macapagal Arroyo
Imee Marcos
Park Geun-hye
Makiko Tanaka
Indira Gandhi
Sujata Koirala
Benazir Bhutto
Dalia Rabin
Dariga Nazarbayeva
Gulnara Karimova
Lyudmila Zhivkova
Kinga Goncz
Dora Bakoyianni
Mary O'Rourke
Violet Bonham Carter
Megan Lloyd George
Margaret Jay
Martine Aubry
Marine Le Pen
Michèle Alliot-Marie
Antoinette Spaak
Ursula von der Leyen
Hildegard Schramm
Monika Hohlmeier
Gro Harlem Brundtland
Karen Ellemann
Hertta Kuusinen
Maria Gaïdar
Keiko Fujimori
Zury Rios Montt
Roseana Sarney
Alzira Vargas
Isabel Allende
Mariana Aylwin
Carmen Frei
Carolina Barco
Judith Tizard
Pascaline Bongo
Margaret Kenyatta

Grand daughters:
Sile de Valera
Alessandra Mussolini

Niece:
Milagros Ortiz Bosch

Daughter-in-law:
Ghinwa Bhutto

Sister-in-law:
Sheila Kaul

Grand niece-in-law:
Violetta Barrios de Chamorro

[Cincinnatus]

Wow, I foresee myself looking up a few of these names.  Looks good, and I will join.

[big bad fab]

With US names, it gives a list of 122...

Well, maybe I've been too generous, but each name is interesting, I think.
Some have ancestors or relatives of low interest but have known much success themselves.
Others are small politicians, but have great relatives.
I've kept a sort of average and I've dropped small politicians with small relatives.

Some are both daughter and wife or daughter and grand-daughter: no big deal, I've just taken the most important degree of parenthood.

Wives:
Soong Ai-ling
Soong Ching-ling
Soong May-ling
Jiang Qing
Rabri Devi
Nadezhda Krupskaya
Elena Ceausescu
Nexhmije Hoxha
Ana Botella
Alva Myrdal
Jennie Lee
Yvette Cooper
Glenys Kinnock
Nana Konadu Rawlings
Winnie Madikizela-Mandela
Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma
Simone Gbagbo
Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner
Sandra Torres
Eva Peron
Isabel Peron
Vilma Espin
Rosinha Garotinho
Susana Higuchi-Fujimori
Viola Burnham
Janet Jagan
Edna Manley
Hillary Clinton
Elizabeth Dole
Eleanor Roosevelt
Pamela Harriman
Arianna Huffington
Rebecca Latimer Felton
Miriam "Ma" Ferguson
Nancy Kassebaum Baker
Lenore Romney
Niki Tsongas
Rose McConnell Long
Catherine Tizard

Widows:
Khaleda Zia
Sonia Gandhi
Maneka Gandhi
Sirimavo Bandaranaike
Imelda Marcos
Corazon Aquino
Nayla Moawad
Nora Gunera de Melgar
Mireya Moscoso
Miria Obote
Jean Carnahan

Sisters:
Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit
Yingluck Shinawatra
Hanne Harlem
Nita Barrow
Eleanor Lansing Dulles
Hilda Lini

Daughters:
Hasina Wajed
Chandrika Kumaratunga
Sunethra Bandaranaike
Megawati Sukarnoputri
Aung San Suu Kyi
Nurul Izzah Anwar
Gloria Macapagal Arroyo
Imee Marcos
Park Geun-hye
Makiko Tanaka
Indira Gandhi
Sujata Koirala
Benazir Bhutto
Dalia Rabin
Dariga Nazarbayeva
Gulnara Karimova
Lyudmila Zhivkova
Kinga Goncz
Dora Bakoyianni
Mary O'Rourke
Violet Bonham Carter
Megan Lloyd George
Margaret Jay
Martine Aubry
Marine Le Pen
Michèle Alliot-Marie
Antoinette Spaak
Ursula von der Leyen
Hildegard Schramm
Monika Hohlmeier
Gro Harlem Brundtland
Karen Ellemann
Hertta Kuusinen
Maria Gaïdar
Keiko Fujimori
Zury Rios Montt
Roseana Sarney
Alzira Vargas
Isabel Allende
Mariana Aylwin
Carmen Frei
Carolina Barco
Kathleen Kennedy Townsend
Christine Todd Whitman
Kathleen Sebelius
Lisa Murkowski
Mary Landrieu
Nancy Pelosi
Elizabeth Cheney
Kathleen Brown
Robin Carnahan
Cynthia McKinney
Maureen Reagan
Judith Tizard
Pascaline Bongo
Margaret Kenyatta

Grand daughters:
Sile de Valera
Alessandra Mussolini
Claire McCaskill
Stephanie Herseth-Sandlin

Nieces:
Milagros Ortiz Bosch
Kay Hagan

Daughters-in-law:
Ghinwa Bhutto
Ronna Romney

Sisters-in-law:
Sheila Kaul

Grand nieces-in-law:
Violetta Barrios de Chamorro

I've ousted Ségolèbne Royal as her career is really parallel to the one of François Hollande, her former husband.

Is there any other idea ?

Is there an idea on how much to spread the names ? Country, continent, degree of parenthood, just one big list like the Roman Emperors ?

Is somebdoy else interested in, apart from Cinci ?

I think it's a good idea () as we don't have much women in these survivors...
And, as it's another survivor for fun, I'd carve "funny" rules.

[Niemeyerite]

I will join, too.

But I think you should keep Segolene^^

In Spain, fortunately, we don't have many dynasties. The only one I can see is Mercedes Cabrera Calvo-Sotelo, a socialist former minister niece of Conservative President Calvo-Sotelo and great-niece of the congressman killed by the republicans in 1936.
And what about Roseana Sarney, daughter of fmr. president José Sarney and Governor of Maranhao?

[BenNebbich]

'So many women, so little time'

[Robert Cray]

[Edu]

I like it, but i don't know if so many names is the correct thing to do, some don't seem to be of much importance. I mean, for instance Robin Carnahan is just the secretary of state of Missouri and a failed candidate for senate. If she is in then so should be, for example, Mercedes "Nina" Aragonés de Juárez, wife of a longtime feudal governor of the Santiago del Estero province who was herself governor for a while and was "deposed" a few years ago in the midst of some heavy controversy.

I'm thinking that we should either let everyone in or eliminate the most superficial ones like for instance Lenore Romney (?). I could probably think of a few more argie wives, daughters or whatever but it will end up clogging the survivor

It would probably be interesting either way though (if there are less names it will also save me time since i'll have to look who the hell half of the list are ), this is just a suggestion

[big bad fab]

Indeed, some US names are small names...
I'll probably cut some of them and maybe some South Asians too (and one or two Irish and British ).
I must acknowledge I've also added German, Belgian, Danish, Finnish, French, etc. names to have a diversity of countries and not only the US, the Philippines, India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Brazil and Argentine ...

Julio, Sarney is already in.
I'll see if I keep your idea of the niece of Calvo Sotelo, but my first thought is positive.

[big bad fab]

OK, I've erased 23 names and added Julio's idea.
Which gives us 100 names.
That's indeed a max.

When you'll re-read the list, you'll be surprised by how many names you in fact know .

Wives:
Soong Ai-ling
Soong Ching-ling
Soong May-ling
Jiang Qing
Rabri Devi
Nadezhda Krupskaya
Elena Ceausescu
Nexhmije Hoxha
Ana Botella
Alva Myrdal
Jennie Lee (she married Aneurin Bevan very late)
Yvette Cooper
Glenys Kinnock (she isn't of big importance after all)
Nana Konadu Rawlings
Winnie Madikizela-Mandela
Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma
Simone Gbagbo
Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner
Sandra Torres (she didn't succeed in becoming a presidential candidate, after all; you know, she has divorced from Alvaro Colom to try to succede him as president)
Eva Peron
Isabel Peron
Vilma Espin
Rosinha Garotinho
Susana Higuchi-Fujimori (we have already the daughter)
Viola Burnham
Janet Jagan
Edna Manley
Hillary Clinton
Elizabeth Dole
Eleanor Roosevelt
Pamela Harriman
Arianna Huffington
Rebecca Latimer Felton
Miriam "Ma" Ferguson
Nancy Kassebaum Baker
Lenore Romney
Niki Tsongas
Rose McConnell Long
Catherine Tizard

Widows:
Khaleda Zia
Sonia Gandhi
Maneka Gandhi
Sirimavo Bandaranaike
Imelda Marcos
Corazon Aquino
Nayla Moawad
Nora Gunera de Melgar
Mireya Moscoso
Miria Obote
Jean Carnahan

Sisters:
Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit
Yingluck Shinawatra
Hanne Harlem
Nita Barrow
Eleanor Lansing Dulles
Hilda Lini

Daughters:
Hasina Wajed
Chandrika Kumaratunga
Sunethra Bandaranaike
Megawati Sukarnoputri
Aung San Suu Kyi
Nurul Izzah Anwar
Gloria Macapagal Arroyo
Imee Marcos
Park Geun-hye
Makiko Tanaka
Indira Gandhi
Sujata Koirala
Benazir Bhutto
Dalia Rabin
Dariga Nazarbayeva
Gulnara Karimova
Lyudmila Zhivkova
Kinga Goncz
Dora Bakoyianni
Mary O'Rourke
Violet Bonham Carter
Megan Lloyd George
Margaret Jay
Martine Aubry
Marine Le Pen
Michèle Alliot-Marie
Antoinette Spaak
Ursula von der Leyen
Hildegard Schramm
Monika Hohlmeier
Gro Harlem Brundtland
Karen Ellemann
Hertta Kuusinen
Maria Gaïdar
Keiko Fujimori
Zury Rios Montt
Roseana Sarney
Alzira Vargas
Isabel Allende
Mariana Aylwin
Carmen Frei
Carolina Barco
Kathleen Kennedy Townsend
Christine Todd Whitman
Kathleen Sebelius
Lisa Murkowski
Mary Landrieu
Nancy Pelosi
Elizabeth Cheney
Kathleen Brown
Robin Carnahan
Cynthia McKinney
Maureen Reagan
Judith Tizard
Pascaline Bongo
Margaret Kenyatta

Grand daughters:
Sile de Valera
Alessandra Mussolini
Claire McCaskill
Stephanie Herseth-Sandlin

Nieces:
Mercedes Cabrera Calvo-Sotelo
Milagros Ortiz Bosch (a pity, but almost no info on her)
Kay Hagan

Daughters-in-law:
Ghinwa Bhutto
Ronna Romney

Sisters-in-law:
Sheila Kaul

Grand nieces-in-law:
Violetta Barrios de Chamorro

Now, I really don't know how to organize this list.
Maybe the simplest thing to do is to have only one list and begin to kill 3 by 3, "as usual".

[Niemeyerite]

I think SUsana Higuchi and Anaq Botella should be kept. Ana Botella will be the major of Madrid in the near future. Anyways, I'll vote to oust her as soon as I can.

[big bad fab]

I've tried to put in the names in four geographical groups:
- Asia would be coherent,
- I'd be forced to add Oceania to the US,
- to add Africa to South America,
- to add Central Asia and Middle East to Europe.

What do you think ?
A big list or four geographical groups ?
We'd be sure to oust US names (), but groups may be of very different importance, as Asian and Latin American dynasties are the most fascinating.

I wait a bit for some input from survivormaniacs and in some days, we'll begin the stuff.