In pictures: Women world leaders

Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, 72, known as the "Iron Lady" by her supporters, was named as one of three joint winners of the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize. She became Africa's first female president in 2005, two years after the end of a brutal 14-year conflict.

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