Will we ever have a female chancellor - will we ever put a woman in charge of our economy?

And the pressure is on the Academy of American Poets to elect a female chancellor.

One could also ask: can Germany have a female chancellor?

Others are championing a woman, pointedly noting that supposedly liberated New York has never had a female chancellor.

November 22 - Angela Merkel becomes Germany's first female chancellor.

"That's why the mere existence of a female chancellor, no matter what she does, will shake up all the existing structures," Ms. Schwarzer said.

She's the first female chancellor, and the first from East Germany.

A fourth K, for Kanzlerin, or female chancellor, was simply out of the question.

She is the first female chancellor.

That particular word was never used officially before Merkel, but it is a grammatically regular formation of a noun denoting a female chancellor.