On this day in 2008, Fehmida Mirza became Pakistan’s first female National Assembly Speaker
Photo: Dr. Fehmida Mirza / Government of India / India (GODL)
On this day in 2008, Dr Fehmida Mirza made history as the first woman elected Speaker of Pakistan’s National Assembly, becoming the first to lead the country’s lower house of Parliament. A long-time member of the centre-left Pakistan People’s Party, she served as Speaker for over five years before later being appointed Minister for Inter-Provincial Coordination.
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In 1911, Austria, Denmark, Germany, and Switzerland marked the first-ever International Women’s Day. More than one million men and women joined rallies demanding women’s right to vote, hold public office, work, and to protest employment discrimination.
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