Russia and Ukraine: who are the only 4 women among the 30 leaders participating in the NATO summit?
Official photo of the 30 leaders of the NATO member countries, in which only four women pose.
An image speaks more than a thousand words.
The leaders of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) began this Thursday in Brussels an emergency summit to discuss the situation of the conflict between Russia and Ukraine.
The main theme of the meeting, which will last three days, is the security of member states, in the context of Moscow’s threats to use chemical and nuclear weapons in the Eastern European country.
But what caught the attention of many was the group photo taken by the participants in the meeting and in which the 30 rulers of the countries that make up the security treaty appear.
Of the world leaders present, only four are women, something that awake questions about inequality in international organizationsbut also in the internal politics of some of the most powerful countries in the world.
Who are the women at the NATO table?
Mette Frederiksen – Prime Minister of Denmark
Frederiksen assumed power in 2019. A member of the Social Democratic Party in her country, she has held several important positions in the Danish government since 2014. She was Minister of Justice and also of Employment.
With a degree in Social Sciences and a Master’s in African Studies, she was also a parliamentarian in the European country.
Frederiksen recently announced that a referendum will be held in his country next June to decide whether Denmark joins the European Union’s common defense efforts.
On two previous occasions the population rejected similar consultations.
“The world has changed in the last ten days. There is a Europe before and a Europe after February 24,” Frederiksen said at the time.
He also said his government will increase its defense budget to meet NATO’s 2% GDP target for military spending by 2033.
Katrín Jakobsdóttir – Prime Minister of Iceland
The former parliamentarian and former Minister of Education became the second woman to take office as Iceland’s president in 2017.
She is the leader of the Green Party in her country, and was born in 1976 into a family of poets, academics and politicians.
Jakobsdóttir has a Master’s in Literature, a degree he obtained with a thesis on the Icelandic writer Arnaldur Indriðason.
When she was elected Prime Minister, her country was in a political crisis and three early elections had been held in four years.
Kaja Kallas – Prime Minister of Estonia
Estonia has been leading since January this year. Kallas, who was born in 1977, has a law degree and is part of his country’s Reform Party.
Upon taking office, she became the first female prime minister in the history of Estonia.
Previously, she was a European parliamentarian and a member of the local Congress.
Estonia, a country bordering Russia to the east, will be one of the territories where NATO’s security will be reinforced.
Zuzana Čaputová – president of Slovakia
He assumed the presidency of his country in 2019, after working in non-governmental organizations that care for children who suffered physical and sexual abuse.
Although he currently does not belong to any political formation, he was initially a member of the Progressive Slovakia party.
He was born in 1973 and studied law. According to her official biography, she decided to enter politics after the murder of her fiancé in February 2018.
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Official photo of the 30 leaders of the NATO member countries, in which only four women pose.
An image speaks more than a thousand words.
The leaders of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) began this Thursday in Brussels an emergency summit to discuss the situation of the conflict between Russia and Ukraine.
The main theme of the meeting, which will last three days, is the security of member states, in the context of Moscow’s threats to use chemical and nuclear weapons in the Eastern European country.
But what caught the attention of many was the group photo taken by the participants in the meeting and in which the 30 rulers of the countries that make up the security treaty appear.
Of the world leaders present, only four are women, something that awake questions about inequality in international organizationsbut also in the internal politics of some of the most powerful countries in the world.
Who are the women at the NATO table?
Mette Frederiksen – Prime Minister of Denmark
Frederiksen assumed power in 2019. A member of the Social Democratic Party in her country, she has held several important positions in the Danish government since 2014. She was Minister of Justice and also of Employment.
With a degree in Social Sciences and a Master’s in African Studies, she was also a parliamentarian in the European country.
Frederiksen recently announced that a referendum will be held in his country next June to decide whether Denmark joins the European Union’s common defense efforts.
On two previous occasions the population rejected similar consultations.
“The world has changed in the last ten days. There is a Europe before and a Europe after February 24,” Frederiksen said at the time.
He also said his government will increase its defense budget to meet NATO’s 2% GDP target for military spending by 2033.
Katrín Jakobsdóttir – Prime Minister of Iceland
The former parliamentarian and former Minister of Education became the second woman to take office as Iceland’s president in 2017.
She is the leader of the Green Party in her country, and was born in 1976 into a family of poets, academics and politicians.
Jakobsdóttir has a Master’s in Literature, a degree he obtained with a thesis on the Icelandic writer Arnaldur Indriðason.
When she was elected Prime Minister, her country was in a political crisis and three early elections had been held in four years.
Kaja Kallas – Prime Minister of Estonia
Estonia has been leading since January this year. Kallas, who was born in 1977, has a law degree and is part of his country’s Reform Party.
Upon taking office, she became the first female prime minister in the history of Estonia.
Previously, she was a European parliamentarian and a member of the local Congress.
Estonia, a country bordering Russia to the east, will be one of the territories where NATO’s security will be reinforced.
Zuzana Čaputová – president of Slovakia
He assumed the presidency of his country in 2019, after working in non-governmental organizations that care for children who suffered physical and sexual abuse.
Although he currently does not belong to any political formation, he was initially a member of the Progressive Slovakia party.
He was born in 1973 and studied law. According to her official biography, she decided to enter politics after the murder of her fiancé in February 2018.
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