In 1987, the borough's first female president, Claire Shulman, called for it to be evicted.
More than anyone at the moment, she has the potential to be America's female president.
Mary Robinson was the first female President of Ireland and former United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights.
This April, Joyce Banda unexpectedly became Malawi's first female president after the death of President Bingu wa Mutharika.
Cristina Fernandez (No. 68) serves as the first elected female president in Argentina.
In Brazil, overseen by female president Dilma Rousseff, this proportion doubles: 20% of the billionaires are women.
It's time for us to take the next step and make electing a female president part of our national story.
Royal, who would be France's first female president if she were elected, came in second with just under 26 percent.
Finland was the first country in the world to grant unrestricted voting rights to women in 1906, and elected its first female president in 2000.
Emma Bonino, former Commissioner in Brussels and fervent pro-European, had been talked about as the strongest contender to be Italy's first female president.
That is a higher proportion than America's and twice as high as the share in Brazil, which elected a female president in 2010.
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But she points out that there is still not a single female president, chairman or chief executive of a big Wall Street firm.
The visit by Ms Park, South Korea's first female president, came as the US and South Korea mark 60 years of their military alliance.
Ms Park, 60, who is aiming to become South Korea's first female president, had been seen as the front-runner until Mr Ahn bowed out.
They focus on the character Florentyna who later becomes the first female president of the United States when the President dies in office.
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Of those surveyed, more thought a female president than a male president would be likely to put families ahead of politics and end partisan bickering.
Ms Fire Thunder, a former nurse and the tribe's first female president, claims that Sacred Choices would not perform abortions but merely offer contraceptive advice.
Ninety percent of the people we polled say they would vote for a woman for president and 75% say a female president would be a good thing for the country.
Though Kenyatta and Odinga are the main players, there are eight presidential contenders, including veteran politician Martha Karua, who, if she won, would be the first female president in Kenya.
The comments from Vazquez Mota, who would be Mexico's first female president if she wins Sunday's vote, were a surprise twist at the end of an intense three-month campaign period.
Younger women failed to recognize the significance of a woman becoming President, having grown up to believe they could do anything and believing that a female President was no big deal.
Ms Bachelet became Chile's first female president in 2006.
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Having inherited one of the most dynamic economies in the world from her political patron, 64-year-old Dilma Rousseff won her first ever election to become the first female President of Brazil.
During the balance of her tenure there as the first female president of a major operating unit in General Dynamics history, she quadrupled the size of GD Armaments while sustaining steady profitability.
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According to opinion polls, this means there is a good chance that Ms Park could become the first female president of a country where only half of women work and a tenth of politicians are female.
Long after we've elected the first female president, we're going to keep electing even more American women, building a pipeline of state legislators and members of Congress, mayors and governors and senators, who will work their way up the ranks and be the second and 10th female presidents.
Without countless such confrontations -- large and small -- over "a woman's place" throughout our history, the ranks of women in executive suites, the U.S. Congress, courtrooms, surgical theaters, the military, and many other places in society would still be close to zero, and the idea of a female president would be as alien as a creature from Mars.
As the Wall Street Journal noted this week in " Guys Left Behind (GLBs), " though we still haven't elected a female president (apparently the yardstick of equality these days), women are making it in terms of college education (nearly 60% of grads are women), political muscle (53% of 2008 electorate were women), market influence (women control 80% of consumer spending) and employment.
Some on the right wonder whether Ms Lagarde could be a future candidate for first female French president, notably because she has stayed outside the conservative UMP party's vicious in-fighting.
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