March 01, 2018

By Comparison


The first American woman appointed chief of mission at the ambassador level, Helen Eugenie Moore Anderson, was named ambassador to Denmark in 1949.

According to a 2016 Pew Research Center report, over 4,600 US ambassadors have served in foreign countries since the founding of the nation – and only nine percent of them have been women. No American woman has ever served as ambassador to Russia or the USSR.


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