Sirimavo Bandaranaike, The Matriarch Of Sri Lanka
At 44 years of age, Sirimavo Bandaranaike stepped out of her shy housewife persona to campaign for and eventually win her recently deceased husband’s seat as the Prime Minister of Sri Lanka. For 40 years, she held political dominance as the world’s first female PM, until her death by heart attack on the way home from voting in Sri Lanka’s general election…