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Her Story Made History: Vigdis Finnbogadottir

Author
/ Through IFC -International Feature Conference
Published
Wed 21 Feb 2018
Episode Link
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p05zfcpy

In 1980, the tiny country of Iceland did something no other nation had done. They elected a female head of state. BBC chief international correspondent Lyse Doucet travels to Reykjavik to meet Vigdis Finnbogadottir. Now 87, she was president for exactly 16 years and remains the longest-serving elected female head of state of any country to date. "That’s what I have given to the girls of this country," she says: “If she can, I can.”

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