The Foreign Service Journal, October 2005

58 F O R E I G N S E R V I C E J O U R N A L / O C T O B E R 2 0 0 5 CHART 3 FEMALE CHIEFS OF MISSION BY REGION, 1933 – 2004 Ambassador Chargé d’Affaires /Principal Officer Western Hemisphere 32* 6 Europe and Eurasia 62** 3 South Asia 10 0 Near East 14*** East Asia and Pacific 23 10 Africa 66**** 4 Total 207 23 __________________________ * Three did not assume the post ** Two did not assume the post *** One did not assume the post **** One did not assume the post From 1933, when the first woman was appointed chief of mission, to the end of 2004, 2,450 persons filled chief-of-mission positions either as minister, ambassador or chargé d’affaires. Of those, 199 (8 percent) were women. A total of 207 women have been appointed/nominated as chief of mission at the rank of ambassador or minister. Twenty-three women have been chiefs of mission at the chargé d’affaires level. A total of 115 countries have had female U.S. ambassadors. Sixty- eight countries have had two or more female U.S. chiefs of mission, while 13 have had four or more female chiefs of mission. CHART 4 APPOINTMENT OF WOMEN AS CHIEFS OF MISSION AND TO OTHER SENIOR POSTS BY ADMINISTRATION, 1933 – 2004 President COM Other Roosevelt (1935-1945) 2 -- Truman (1945-1953) 2 -- Eisenhower (1953-1961) 4 -- Kennedy (1961-1963) 2 -- Johnson (1963-1969) 4 1 Nixon (1969-1974) 4 2 Ford (1974-1977) 7 3 Carter (1977-1981) 18 10 Reagan (1981-1989) 22 11 G.H.W. Bush (1989-1993) 28 9 Clinton (1993-2001) 87 29 G.W. Bush (2001-2004) 50 19