It’s quite easy to come up with a long list of male dictators. Coming up with a list of female dictators is a lot more difficult.
There were a couple of female pharohs in Egypt, ending with Cleopatra. Catherine the Great of Russia could be considered a dictator in her own right. But these women took over “going concerns.” They were more or less in line for the throne and did not come to power by some other means and set up the dictatorship.
Do female monarchs count? Again, I can’t think of an instance where a woman came to absolute power other than by inheritance (or pretension to inheritance).
In today’s world, there are few female leaders and they (with the exception of the above mentioned monarchs) have been democratically elected.
So in 5,000+ years of history we can only come up with a handful of female dictators.
Originally posted 2008-11-16 12:44:59.
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