Female foreign ministers in major Western Democracies

Country Name / term
Australia no
Belgium no
Canada Yes (2) Flora McDonald (79-80), Barbara McDougall (91-93)
Denmark no
Finland Yes Tarja Halonen (95-00)
France no
Germany no (I)
Holland no
India Yes Indira Gandhi (67-69)
Ireland no
Italy Yes Susanna Agnelli (95-96)
Japan Yes (2) Makiko Tanaka (01-02), Yoriko Kawaguchi (02-04)
Mexico Yes Rosario Green (98-00)
New Zealand no (I)
Norway no (I)
Portugal Yes Teresa Patrício Gouveia (03-04)
Russia no
Spain Yes Ana Palacio (02-04)
Sweden Yes (6) Karin Söder (76-78) , Margaretha af Ugglas (91-94), Lena Hjelm-Wallén (94-98), Anna Lindh (98-03), Laila Freivalds (03-06), Carin Jämtin (06)
United Kingdom Yes Margaret Beckett (06- )
United States Yes (2) Madeleine Albright (96-01), Condoleezza Rice (05- )

The symbol (I) is for irony, because these countries have not had a female foreign minister, but have had a female ruler.