* 1988 – Benazir Bhutto is sworn in as Prime Minister of Pakistan, becoming the first woman to head the government of an Islam-dominated state.

Also in that year, she was made one of the visiting physicians of the East London Hospital for Children, becoming the first woman in Britain to be appointed to a medical post, but she found the duties of these two positions to be incompatible with her principal work in her private practice and the dispensary, as well as her role as a new mother, so she resigned from these posts by 1873.

This Annie took, becoming a professor's wife-only to have a woman scholar destroy her husband's career, drive him to suicide, and thus push Annie herself back down to the status of a servant.

* 1930 – Amy Johnson lands in Darwin, Northern Territory, becoming the first woman to fly solo from England to Australia ( she left on May 5 for the 11, 000 mile flight ).

The younger man is Mark Antony being lured by the wiles of the reclining woman ( who is Cleopatra, with the snake being an asp ) into losing his manly romanitas and becoming decadent, with the bearded elder male figure being his mythical ancestor Anton looking on.

She had a busy official role from 1932 to 1939 and, following her husband's death, stood for Parliament herself, becoming Australia's first female Member of the House of Representatives, and later first woman in Cabinet, joining the Menzies Cabinet in 1951.

I responded to the challenge by becoming that alarming, hazardous, sexually disruptive woman.

Just as, in the case of the original Adam, woman was constructed from man, and their carnal cleaving together was portrayed as becoming one flesh, so the ideal for kabbalists is the reconstitution of what Wolfson calls the male androgyne.

* The presence and rise of a significant number of women as heads of state and heads of government in a number of countries across the world, many being the first women to hold such positions, such as Soong Ching-ling continuing as the first Chairwoman of the People's Republic of China until 1972, Isabel Martínez de Perón as the first woman President in Argentina in 1974 until being deposed in 1976, Elisabeth Domitien becomes the first woman Prime Minister of Lesotho, Indira Gandhi continuing as Prime Minister of India until 1977, Lidia Gueiler Tejada becoming the interim President of Bolivia beginning from 1979 to 1980, Maria de Lourdes Pintasilgo becoming the first woman Prime Minister of Portugal in 1979, and Margaret Thatcher becoming the first woman Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

* July 13 – Ruth Ellis ( born 1926 ) is hanged for murder in London, becoming the last woman ever to be executed in the United Kingdom.

* November 21 – Rebecca Felton of Georgia takes the oath of office, becoming the first woman United States Senator.

* May 24 – Amy Johnson lands in Darwin, Australia, becoming the first woman to fly solo from England to Australia ( she left on May 5 for the 11, 000 mile flight ).

by the Medical Institute of Geneva, New York, thus becoming the United States ' first woman doctor.

Of the core characters, Willow changes the most, becoming a complex portrayal of a woman whose powers force her to seek balance between what is best for the people she loves and what she is capable of doing.

Among the later, non-indigenous Egyptian dynasties, the most notable example of another woman who became pharaoh was Cleopatra VII, the last pharaoh of Ancient Egypt.

Twosret, a female king and the last pharaoh of the nineteenth dynasty, may have been the only woman to succeed her among the indigenous rulers.

Notably, even after assuming the formal regalia, Hatshepsut still described herself as a beautiful woman, often as the most beautiful of women, and although she assumed almost all of her father's titles, she declined to take the title " The Strong Bull " ( the full title being, The Strong Bull of his Mother ), which tied the pharaoh to the goddesses Isis, the throne, and Hathor, ( the cow who gave birth to and protected the pharaohs )— by being her son sitting on her throne — an unnecessary title for her, since Hatshepsut became allied with the goddesses, herself, which no male pharaoh could.

Amenhotep III also may have been the father of a third child — called Smenkhkare, who later would succeed Akhenaten, briefly rule Egypt as pharaoh, and who is thought to have been a woman.

This fable tells the story of how the pharaoh fell in love with a beautiful foreign woman after smelling her hair.

Setne then meets a beautiful woman who seduces him into killing his children and humiliating himself in front of the pharaoh.

After becoming pharaoh, Amenhotep married a woman of uncertain parentage named Tiaa.

The full titulary of Eighteenth Dynasty pharaoh Hatshepsut, providing a guide to pronunciation and its equivalent meaning and showing the differences if the pharaoh is a woman, is as follows,

When they were closer and he saw that one was a woman, he was more puzzled than ever.

My new Aunt was perhaps three or four years older than I and it had been a long time since I had seen as gorgeous a woman who oozed sex.

I myself was fond of him but what a young woman half his age saw in him was a mystery to me.

Mary Jane might not be the most intelligent woman, but she was one of the most determined.

His bold eyes raked the woman, and a perceptive spectator might sense that there was more to their relationship than that of slave to owner.

Though the slave's dying words about the woman troubled the coroner's panel, Dandy's accusation was adjudged an aberration by the jury and disregarded.

One beatnik got the woman he was living with so involved in drugs and self-analysis and all-night sessions of sex that she was beginning to crack up.

This showed that common sense had not died out at the county and village level -- though why the unhappy and obviously unbalanced woman was not restrained remains a puzzle.

I fled, however, not from what might have been the natural fear of being unable to disguise from you that the things about my bridegroom -- in the sense you meant the word `` things '' -- which you had been galvanizing yourself to tell me as a painful part of your maternal duty were things which I had already insisted upon finding out for myself ( despite, I may now say, the unspeakable awkwardness of making the discovery on principle, yes, on principle, and in cold blood ) because I was resolved, as a modern woman, not to be a mollycoddle waiting for Life but to seize Life by the throat.

That she was affected by his protestations seems obvious, but since she was evidently a sensible young woman -- as well as an outgoing and sympathetic type -- it would seem that for her the word friendship had a far less intense emotional significance than that which Thompson gave it.

Soon he was in trouble there, for defending a woman who was accused of smiling in church.

He advised the poor woman not to appear in court as what she was charged with was not in violation of law.

While driving the cow back home the woman was assaulted by a servant maid of Gorton.

Tessie, everybody thought, was a strong woman, but she was only strong because she had Alfred to lean on.

Her brother Karl was a very gentle soul, her mother was a quiet woman who said little but who had hard, probing eyes.

He thought how this dainty, fragile older woman threading her way through the streets of Westminster on a day in June, enjoying the flowers in the shops, the greetings from old friends, but never really drawing a deep, passionate breath, was so like himself.

The only one who would have him was his cripple, the strange unhappy woman who became his wife.

The woman eyed the youth with the avidity a coin collector might display toward a rare doubloon which is not yet in his collection.

... A rare exception to this tradition is the prophetess and judge Deborah, perhaps the Bible's greatest woman figure.

An immigrant from Ukraine, Marie Selig attended college, a rare accomplishment for a woman in the early 20th century, and became a school teacher.

Co-penned by Linda Perry, the song offers a rare glimpse into the mind of a woman who, for the last 15 years, has been as famous for being a rock star as she's been for being a victim.

That rare type of achievement by a woman prompted one local newspaper to state, " It is a legitimate source of pride to Philadelphia that one of its most cherished institutions has made this innovation.

In Bringing Up Baby we find a rare statement on that, when the leading woman says, once speaking to someone other than her future husband: " He's the man I ’ m going to marry, he doesn ’ t know it, but I am.

Art historian Giorgio Vasari wrote about Anguissola that she " has shown greater application and better grace than any other woman of our age in her endeavors at drawing ; she has thus succeeded not only in drawing, coloring and painting from nature, and copying excellently from others, but by herself has created rare and very beautiful paintings.

The great early art historian Giorgio Vasari wrote this about Anguissola: " Anguissola has shown greater application and better grace than any other woman of our age in her endeavors at drawing ; she has thus succeeded not only in drawing, coloring and painting from nature, and copying excellently from others, but by herself has created rare and very beautiful paintings.

Other references in classical literature include the belief that upon death the otherwise silent Mute Swan would sing beautifully-hence the phrase swan song ; as well as Juvenal's sarcastic reference to a good woman being a " rare bird, as rare on earth as a black swan ", from which we get the Latin phrase rara avis, rare bird.

The main-line departure platform slumbered like the rest ; the booking-hutches closed ; the backs of Mr Haggard's novels, with which upon a weekday the bookstall shines emblazoned, discreetly hidden behind dingy shutters ; the rare officials, undisguisedly somnambulant ; and the customary loiterers, even to the middle-aged woman with the ulster and the handbag, fled to more congenial scenes.

Like all female concepts from the Ogdoad belief system, Kebechet was depicted as a snake, or simply as a woman with the head of a snake, although in rare instances she was pictured as an ostrich, which was representative of Ma ' at.

The find was a rare example of a single woman given a full ceremonial burial in a wooden chamber tomb in the 5th century BC, accompanied by six horses.

Anne was a literate woman, rare for the time, but there was some opposition to her as regent on the grounds that her mastery of French was less than fluent.

La Borderie replied in L ' Amie de cour with a description of a very much more human woman, and Charles Fontaine contributed a Contr ' amye de court to the dispute, Héroet, in addition to some translations from the classics, wrote the Complainte d ' une dame nouvellement surprise d ' amour, an Epistre a François Ier, and some pieces included in the now very rare Opuscules d ' amour par Héroet, La Borderie et autres divins poetes ( Lyons, 1547 ).

A " woman of letters " who published in multiple genres, Barbauld had a successful writing career at a time when female professional writers were rare.

Lila is a woman with a rare hormonal imbalance which causes thick hair to grow all over her body.

By the Late Republic, manus marriage had become rare, and a woman remained legally a part of her birth family.

Following these guidelines can help to protect a woman from TSS, and cases of tampon connected TSS are extremely rare in the United States.

Webster's use of a strong, virtuous woman as his central character was rare for his time and represents a deliberate reworking of some of the original historical event on which his play was based.

# Piers of the Realm ( February 26, 1989 ) – In Yorkshire to attend a horse race in which his horse is the favourite, Alan holds a rare surgery, during which he charges a farmer £ 500 to have a bypass rerouted around his farm and cons a senile elderly woman out of her £ 350, 000 home.

Thus, the children of a woman named Sarah Miller would use the middle initial M. The practice of abbreviating middle names to initials is rare in the United Kingdom.

In 1952, Pamela found him with a young woman, Anne-Marie d ' Estainville, and threw a rare fit about this.