Finnbogadóttir

[ fin-boh-guh-daw-ter; Icelandic fin-baw-gah-doh-tir ]

noun

1. Vig·dís [vig, -dees], born 1930, Icelandic political leader: president 1980–96, the first woman in the world to be elected head of state in a democratic national election.

Example Sentences

Former Icelandic president Vigdís Finnbogadóttir told the BBC in 2015 that the 1975 strike was "the first step for women's emancipation in Iceland," which paved the way for her to become the first woman to be democratically elected head of state in the world in 1980.

From BBC

Iceland's Vigdis Finnbogadottir was the first woman to be democratically elected as head of state by voters when she defeated three men for the presidency in 1980.

From Fox News

I am the daughter of a woman called Vigdís Finnbogadóttir.

From The Guardian

When Vigdís Finnbogadóttir, a divorced single mother, ran for president of Iceland in 1980, women made up only 5% of parliamentarians in the Nordic country.

From The Guardian

After Finnbogadóttir made history in 1980, female political participation in Iceland soared, leading it to become the most gender-equal parliament in the world among countries without a quota system.

From The Guardian