Beauty and Politics: Female Representatives of Presidents and Ministers

미국 케일리 매커내니 백악관 대변인

White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany holds her first on-camera news conference in the James Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House May 01, 2020 in Washington, DC.

 

 

러시아 내무부 이리나 볼크 ( Irina   Volk ) 대변인

Official representative of the Russian Interior Ministry, Police Major General Irina Volk during a ministerial meeting on 26 February 2020

 

러시아 국방부 로시야나 마르코프스카야 대변인

Journalist Rossiyana Markovskaya

 

 러시아 외무부 마리아 자카로바 (Maria Zakharova) 대변인 

Russian Foreign Ministry's spokeswoman Maria Zakharova during a briefing in Moscow on 8 November 2019

 

베트남 외무부 레 티 투 항( Le  Thi Thu Hang ) 대변인

Vietnam's Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Le Thi Thu Hang takes questions during a press conference in Hanoi on August 3, 2017.

 

카타르 외무부 룰와 라시드 알 카터 대변인

Lulwa Rashid Al-Khater, spokeswoman for the Qatari Foreign Ministry, gives an interview in her office in the capital Doha on February 14, 2018.

 

미국 국무부 모건 오타거스(Morgan Ortagus)  대변인 

U.S. State Department Spokesperson Morgan Ortagus attends a news conference at the Department of State, on July 8, 2019 in Washington, DC.

 

율리야 멘델 우크라이나 대통령 공보비서관

Yuliya Mendel, press-secretary for the President of Ukraine

 

 에바 카일리(Eva Kaili ) 유럽의회(European Parliament for Greece) 의원

Eva Kaili, a member of the European Parliament, representing the Panhellenic Socialist Movement

 

벨라루시 나탈리아 아이즈 몬트 대통령실 대변인

Natalia Eismont, press-secretary for the President of Belarus

 

자리나 누르라노바 전 카자흐스탄 총리 언론국장

Zarina Nurlanova, former head of the Kazakh prime minister's press service

 

미국 국방부 알리사 파라 공보 대변인

Pentagon Press Secretary Alyssa Farah briefs the press on the department's COVID-19 response efforts, at the Pentagon in Washington on 25 March 202

 

The newly-appointed White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany held her first briefing last week. She is the fourth person to hold this role since Donald Trump became US President in 2017.

Women have been commonplace in politics for a long time now. Female ministers and press secretaries are not rare even in Muslim-majority countries.

Check out Sputnik's photo gallery to see women who were chosen to represent high-ranking men in the US, Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, Vietnam, Qatar and elsewhere.

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