President Bidya Devi Bhandari has been ranked 52nd on this year’s edition of Forbes World’s 100 Most Powerful Women.
The popular magazine publishes the name of powerful women and men every year.
The magazine attributes President Bhandari’s proximity to Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli as a factor for the rating. “Although the role is considered to be ceremonial, Bhandari, a longtime politician, has the ear of Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli, and therefore could potentially have greater influence in national policies and decision-making,” read the description on President Bhandari.
Forbes has portrayed Bhandari as an women's rights advocate saying, “She (Bhandari) has made progress on at least one front: helping to push forward a mandate, now approved, that women comprise at least a third of Nepal's parliament.”
On this year’s Forbes list of the world’s 100 most powerful women, the top three most powerful are politicians: Germany’s Angela Merkel, US presidential candidate Hillary Clinton and Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen.
Other influential women who made the list are Park Geun-hye, President, South Korea at number 12, ranked 13 is Michelle Obama, First Lady of the United States, and Taiwan’s President Tsai Ing-wen has been ranked 17.
Nobel Peace Prize winner and newly elected defacto leader of Myanmar Aung San Suu Kyi has been placed at number 26 and United Kingdom’s Monarch Queen Elizabeth II has been ranked 29.
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