Kathmandu: Nepal has elected a long-time women's rights campaigner as the country's first female president, as the Himalayan nation pushes for more gender equality in politics and work life.
Bidhya Devi Bhandari, the 54-year-old deputy leader of Nepal's Communist Party of Nepal Unified Marxist-Leninist, had lobbied actively for the new constitution to require that either the president or vice-president be a woman.
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