Schmidt joins list of Women Prime Minister's

Helle Thorning-Schmidt is all set to be Denmark's first female PM after the leader of the opposition defeated outgoing Prime Minister Lars Loekke Rasmussen of the right-wing government which was in rule for about a decade.

Following is a list of Women who have assumed the role of PM across the globe.

Sirimavo Bandaranaike - Sri Lanka
Indira Gandhi - India
Golda Meir -  Israel
Elisabeth Domitien - Central African Republic
Margaret Thatcher - Great Britain

Maria da Lourdes Pintasilgo - Portugal
Lidia Gueiler Tejada - Bolivia
Dame Eugenia Charles - Dominica
Gro Harlem Brundtland - Norway
Milka Planinc - Yugoslavia
Maria Liberia-Peters - Netherlands Antilles
Benazir Bhutto - Pakistan
Kazimiera Danuta Prunskiene
Khaleda Zia - Bangladesh
Edith Cresson - France
Hanna Suchocka - Poland
Kim Campbell - Canada
Sylvie Kinigi - Burundi
Agathe Uwilingiyimana - Rwanda
Susanne Camelia-Romer - Netherlands Antilles
Tansu Ciller - Turkey
Claudette Werleigh - Haiti
Sheikh Hasina Wajed - Bangladesh
Pamela Gordon - Bermuda
Janet Jagan - Guyana
Jenny Shipley- New Zealand
Jennifer M. Smith- Bermuda
Nyam-Osoriyn Tuyaa - Mongolia
Helen Clark- New Zealand
Mame Madior Boye - Senegal
Maria das Neves- Sao Tome and Principe
Beatriz Merino - Peru
Luisa Diogo - Mozambique
Yulia Tymoshenko - Ukraine
Han Myung-sook - South Korea
Portia Simpson Miller - Jamaica
Zinaida Greceanii - Moldova
Kamla Persad Bissessar- Trinidad and Tobago
Julia Gillard - Australia
Dilma Rousseff - Brazil
Yingluck Shinawatra - Thailand