By The Numbers: Gender Inequality By The Numbers for Canadian Prime Minister and Premiers

By The Numbers: Gender Inequality By The Numbers for Canadian Prime Minister and Premiers

Gender Inequality By The Numbers of Canadian Prime Ministers and Premiers - Madame Premier

1: The number of women who have served as prime minister of Canada,

23: The number of men who have served as prime minister of Canada.

13: The number of women who have served as premier of a province or territory in Canada.

271: The number of men who have served as premier of a province or territory in Canada

36: Number of male prime ministers and premiers named John

18: Number of male prime ministers and premiers named William/Bill

By The Numbers: Gender Inequality by The Numbers of Canadian Prime Minister and Premiers - Madame Premier

By The Numbers: Gender Inequality by The Numbers of Canadian Prime Minister and Premiers - Madame Premier

 

By The Numbers: Gender Inequality by The Numbers of Canadian Prime Minister and Premiers - Madame Premier

By The Numbers: Gender Inequality by The Numbers of Canadian Prime Minister and Premiers - Madame Premier  

To the best of my knowledge, all of this information has never been combined, listed or completed. Now there is a living record clearly showing the gender inequality by the numbers. It is time for there to be more women's names on the list. Period.

 

Prime Minister

Female Prime Minister:

  1. Kim Campbell

Male Prime Ministers:

  1. John Alexander Macdonald 
  2. Alexander Mackenzie 
  3. John Abbott
  4. John Thompson
  5. Mackenzie Bowell
  6. Charles Tupper
  7. Sir Wilfrid Laurier
  8. Sir Robert Laird Borden
  9. Arthur Meighen
  10. W.L. Mackenzie King
  11. Richard Bedford Bennett
  12. W.L. Mackenzie King
  13. Louis Saint Laurent
  14. John G. Diefenbaker
  15. Lester B. Pearson
  16. Pierre Elliott Trudeau
  17. Joe Clark
  18. John N. Turner
  19. Brian Mulroney
  20. Jean Chrétien
  21. Paul Martin
  22. Stephen Harper
  23. Justin Trudeau

 

Alberta

Female Premiers:

  1. Alison Redford
  2. Rachel Notley

Male Premiers:

  1. Alexander C. Rutherford
  2. Arthur L. Sifton
  3. Charles Stewart
  4. Herbert Greenfield
  5. John E. Brownlee
  6. Richard Reid
  7. William Aberhart
  8. Ernest Manning
  9. Harry Strom
  10. Peter Lougheed
  11. Don Getty
  12. Ralph Klein
  13. Ed Stelmach
  14. Jim Prentice
  15. Jason Kenney

 

British Columbia

Female Premiers:

  1. Rita Johnston
  2. Christy Clark

Male Premiers:

  1. John McCreight
  2. Amor De Cosmos
  3. George Walkem
  4. Andrew Elliot
  5. Robert Beaven
  6. William Smithe
  7. A.E.B. Davie
  8. John Robson
  9. Theodore Davie
  10. John H. Turner
  11. Charles Semlin
  12. Joe Martin
  13. James Dunsmuir
  14. Edward Prior
  15. Richard McBride
  16. William John Bowser
  17. Harlan Brewster
  18. John Oliver
  19. John McLean
  20. Simon Fraser Tolmie
  21. Duff Pattullo
  22. John Hart
  23. Byron Johnson
  24. W.A.C. Bennett
  25. Dave Barrett
  26. Bill Bennett
  27. Bill Vander Zalm
  28. Mike Harcourt
  29. Glen Clark
  30. Ujjal Dosanjh
  31. Gordon Campbell
  32. John Horgan

 

Manitoba

Female Premier:

  1. Heather Stefanson

Male Premiers:

  1. Alfred Boyd
  2. Marc-Amable Girard
  3. Henry Joseph Hynes Clarke
  4. Robert Atkinson Davis
  5. John Norquay
  6. David H. Harrison
  7. Thomas Greenway
  8. Hugh John Macdonald
  9. Rodmond P. Roblin
  10. Tobias Crawford Norris
  11. John Bracken
  12. Stuart S. Garson
  13. Douglas L. Campbell
  14. Dufferin Roblin
  15. Walter Weir
  16. Edward Schreyer
  17. Sterling Lyon
  18. Howard Pawley
  19. Gary Filmon
  20. Gary Doer
  21. Greg Selinger
  22. Brian Pallister

 

New Brunswick

Female Premier: 

N/A

Male Premiers:

  1. Peter Mitchell
  2. Andrew Wetmore
  3. George King
  4. George Hatheway
  5. James Fraser
  6. Daniel Hanington
  7. Andrew Blair
  8. James Mitchell
  9. Henry Emmerson
  10. Lemuel Tweedie
  11. William Pugsley
  12. Clifford Robinson
  13. John Douglas Hazen
  14. James Kidd Flemming
  15. George Clarke
  16. James Murray
  17. Walter Foster
  18. Peter Veniot
  19. John Baxter
  20. Charles Richards
  21. Leonard Tilley
  22. Allison Dysart
  23. John McNair
  24. Hugh Fleming
  25. Louis Robichaud
  26. Richard Hatfield
  27. Frank McKenna
  28. Ray Frenette
  29. Camille Thériault
  30. Bernard Lord
  31. Shawn Graham
  32. David Alward
  33. Brian Gallant
  34. Blaine Higgs

 

Newfoundland and Labrador

Female Premier:

  1. Kathy Dunderdale

Male Premiers:

  1. Joey Smallwood
  2. Frank D. Moores
  3. Brian Peckford
  4. Tom Rideout
  5. Clyde Wells
  6. Brian Tobin
  7. Beaton Tulk
  8. Roger Grimes
  9. Danny Williams
  10. Paul Davis
  11. Dwight Ball
  12. Andrew Furey

 

North West Territories

Female Premiers:

  1. Nellie Cournoyea
  2. Caroline Cochrane

Male Premiers:

  1. Frederick W.A.G. Haultain
  2. George Braden
  3. Richard Nerysoo
  4. Nick Sibbeston
  5. Dennis Patterson
  6. Don Morin
  7. Jim Antoine
  8. Stephen Kakfwi
  9. Joe Handley
  10. Floyd Roland
  11. Bob McLeod

 

Nova Scotia

Female Premier:

N/A

Male Premiers:

  1. Charles Tupper
  2. Hiram Blanchard
  3. William Annand
  4. Philip Carteret Hill
  5. Simon H. Holmes
  6. John Thompson
  7. William T. Pipes
  8. William S. Fielding
  9. George Henry Murray
  10. Ernest H. Armstrong
  11. Edgar N. Rhodes
  12. Gordon S. Harrington
  13. Angus L. Macdonald
  14. Alexander S. MacMillan
  15. Harold Joseph Connolly
  16. Henry Davis Hicks
  17. Robert Stanfield
  18. George I. Smith
  19. Gerald Regan
  20. John Buchanan
  21. Roger Bacon
  22. Don Cameron
  23. John Savage
  24. Russell MacLellan
  25. John Hamm
  26. Rodney MacDonald
  27. Darrell Dexter
  28. Stephen McNeil
  29. Iain Rankin
  30. Tim Houston

 

Nunavut

Female Premier:

  1. Eva Aariak

Male Premiers:

  1. Paul Okalik
  2. Peter Taptuna
  3. Paul Quassa
  4. Joe Savikataaq

 

Ontario

Female Premier:

  1. Kathleen Wynne

Male Premiers:

  1. John Sandfield Macdonald
  2. Edward Blake
  3. Oliver Mowat
  4. Arthur Hardy
  5. George William Ross
  6. James Whitney
  7. William Howard Hearst
  8. Ernest Charles Drury
  9. George Howard Ferguson
  10. George Stewart Henry
  11. Mitchell Hepburn
  12. Gordon Daniel Conant
  13. Harry Nixon
  14. George Drew
  15. Thomas Kennedy
  16. Leslie Frost
  17. John Robarts
  18. Bill Davis
  19. Frank Miller
  20. David Peterson
  21. Bob Rae
  22. Mike Harris
  23. Ernie Eves
  24. Dalton McGuinty
  25. Doug Ford

 

Prince Edward Island

Female Premier:

  1. Catherine Callbeck

Male Premiers:

  1. James C. Pope
  2. Lemuel C. Owen
  3. Louis Henry Davies
  4. W.W. Sullivan
  5. Neil McLeod
  6. Frederick Peters
  7. Alexander B. Warburton
  8. Donald Farquharson
  9. Arthur Peters
  10. Francis L. Haszard
  11. James Palmer
  12. John A. Mathieson
  13. Aubin E. Arsenault
  14. John H. Bell
  15. James D. Stewart
  16. Albert C. Saunders
  17. Walter M. Lea
  18. James D. Stewart
  19. William J.P. MacMillan
  20. Thane A. Campbell
  21. Walter Jones
  22. Alexander W. Matheson
  23. Walter R. Shaw
  24. Alexander B. Campbell
  25. Bennett Campbell
  26. Angus MacLean
  27. James M. Lee
  28. Joseph A. Ghiz
  29. Keith Milligan
  30. Pat Binns
  31. Wade ​MacLauchlan
  32. Dennis King

 

Quebec

Female Premier:

  1. Pauline Marois

Male Premiers:

  1. Pierre-Joseph-Olivier Chauveau
  2. Gédéon Ouimet
  3. Charles Boucher de Boucherville
  4. Henri-Gustave Joly de Lotbinière
  5. Joseph-Adolphe Chapleau
  6. Joseph-Alfred Mousseau
  7. John Jones Ross
  8. Louis-Olivier Taillon
  9. Honoré Mercier
  10. Edmund James Flynn
  11. Félix-Gabriel Marchand
  12. Simon-Napoléon Parent
  13. Lomer Gouin
  14. Louis-Alexandre Taschereau
  15. Adélard Godbout
  16. Maurice Duplessis
  17. Paul Sauvé
  18. Antonio Barrette
  19. Jean Lesage
  20. Daniel Johnson Sr.
  21. Jean-Jacques Bertrand
  22. Robert Bourassa
  23. René Lévesque
  24. Pierre-Marc Johnson
  25. Daniel Johnson Jr.
  26. Jacques Parizeau
  27. Lucien Bouchard
  28. Bernard Landry
  29. Jean Charest
  30. Philippe Couillard
  31. François Legault

 

Saskatchewan

Female Premier:

N/A

Male Premiers:

  1. Walter Scott
  2. William M. Martin
  3. Charles A. Dunning
  4. James G. Gardiner
  5. James Anderson
  6. William J. Patterson
  7. Thomas C. Douglas
  8. Woodrow S. Lloyd
  9. Ross Thatcher
  10. Allan E. Blakeney
  11. Grant Devine
  12. Roy Romanow
  13. Lorne Calvert
  14. Brad Wall
  15. Scott Moe

 

Yukon

Female Premier:

  1. Pat Duncan

Male Premiers:

  1. Chris Pearson
  2. Willard Phelps
  3. Tony Penikett
  4. John Ostashek
  5. Piers McDonald
  6. Dennis Fentie
  7. Darrell Pasloski
  8. Sandy Silver

 

Notes: 

Acting premiers are not included in any of the lists. But they were all men too.

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