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.
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.
Official representative of the Russian Interior Ministry, Police Major General Irina Volk during a ministerial meeting on 26 February 2020
Journalist Rossiyana Markovskaya
Russian Foreign Ministry's spokeswoman Maria Zakharova during a briefing in Moscow on 8 November 2019
Vietnam's Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Le Thi Thu Hang takes questions during a press conference in Hanoi on August 3, 2017.
Lulwa Rashid Al-Khater, spokeswoman for the Qatari Foreign Ministry, gives an interview in her office in the capital Doha on February 14, 2018.
U.S. State Department Spokesperson Morgan Ortagus attends a news conference at the Department of State, on July 8, 2019 in Washington, DC.
Yuliya Mendel, press-secretary for the President of Ukraine
Eva Kaili, a member of the European Parliament, representing the Panhellenic Socialist Movement
Natalia Eismont, press-secretary for the President of Belarus
Zarina Nurlanova, former head of the Kazakh prime minister's press service
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Pentagon Press Secretary Alyssa Farah briefs the press on the department's COVID-19 response efforts, at the Pentagon in Washington on 25 March 2020
