December 8, 1997 (Dingchou winter of early nine), Shipley was appointed New Zealand's first female prime minister.


Shipley any New Zealand's first female Prime Minister In December 1997, the handover ceremony held in government buildings in the New Zealand capital Wellington, 45-year-old Jenny - Shipley to succeed former Prime Minister Bolger as the new prime minister, became the first female prime minister in New Zealand history. Shipley was born in 1952, in the second of four sisters. She was elected to Congress in 1987, and since 1990 has served as minister of social welfare. Minister of Health, Minister of Transport, and Minister for Women and other duties. Shipley advocate profound social and economic changes in New Zealand, and privatization.