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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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.
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Official representative of the Russian Interior Ministry, Police Major General Irina Volk during a ministerial meeting on 26 February 2020
© Sputnik / Aleksei Druzhinin
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Russian Foreign Ministry's spokeswoman Maria Zakharova during a briefing in Moscow on 8 November 2019
© Sputnik / Maksim Blinov
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Vietnam's Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Le Thi Thu Hang takes questions during a press conference in Hanoi on August 3, 2017.
© AFP 2023 / Hoang Dinh Nam
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Lulwa Rashid Al-Khater, spokeswoman for the Qatari Foreign Ministry, gives an interview in her office in the capital Doha on February 14, 2018.
© AFP 2023 / Stringer
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U.S. State Department Spokesperson Morgan Ortagus attends a news conference at the Department of State, on July 8, 2019 in Washington, DC.
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Yuliya Mendel, press-secretary for the President of Ukraine
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Eva Kaili, a member of the European Parliament, representing the Panhellenic Socialist Movement
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Natalia Eismont, press-secretary for the President of Belarus
© Sputnik / Victor Tolochko
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Zarina Nurlanova, former head of the Kazakh prime minister's press service
© Photo : Facebook account of Zarina Nurlanova
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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
© AP Photo / Lisa Ferdinando/Department of Defense