Isabel Martínez de Perón
María Estela Martínez Cartas de Perón (born 4 February 1931), better known as Isabel Martínez de Perón () or Isabel Perón, served as the 42nd President of Argentina from 1974 to 1976. She was the third wife of President Juan Perón. During her husband's third term as president from 1973 to 1974, Isabel served as both vice president and First Lady. Following her husband's death in office in 1974, Isabel served as president of Argentina from 1 July 1974 to 24 March 1976, when the military took over the government and placed her under house arrest for five years, before exiling her to Spain in 1981. She holds the distinction of having been the first woman to have had the title of "President", as opposed to a queen or prime minister.
Ivelisse Prats Ramírez
Ivelisse Prats Ramírez was president of the Partido Revolucionario Dominicano (PRD) from 1979-1982 and was later vice president in 2004.
She was the first woman in the Dominican Republic and in all of Latin America to be elected president of a political party. Before becoming a member, Ivelisse Prats Ramirez was doing social militancy with the PRD. Her experience working social militancy has led her to believe it is important for politicians to have experienced something similar in order for them to gain social sensitivity. In 1970, she was a representative for professors under the Asociación Dominicana de Profesores(ADP). Four years later, she was appointed as a leader of the Comité Ejecutivo Nacional(CEN) in 1974, by José Francisco Peña Gómez, after he recognized her political merits and accomplishments. She also became the director of the National Department of Education. In September of 1978, Ivelisse Prats Ramirez was named directorate for the First School of Pictures of the PRD, which was being sponsored by the Friedich Ebert foundation. During the same year she was elected deputy for the National District and the year following, she was elected president of the Partido Revolucionario Dominicano. Ivelisse Prats resigned from her position as President of the PRD in 1982, after she was appointed Minister of Education. For a year, in 1988, she was the director of the Department of Cultural and Teacher Affairs of the PRD, a position that was created by the white party. Once again in 1989 she went back to being the director for the National Department of Education. Ivelisse Prats Ramirez was regent for the PRD in the National District during elections in 1994. As of 1996, she was elected and has remained the National Secretary of Education and Doctrine, which was created through the merging of the Department of Education and Doctrine. Prats continues to keep herself busy with her political tasks while also putting together seminars, teaching classes and writing. Some of her works are used as textbooks in courses offered by the PRD.