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  As women politicians, we talk about the most difficult themes of state security, foreign relations and development models, then ask, 'How do you make it work with your husband?' The interesting thing is that these women - most of them - don't lose the per

  3.2 · 21 votes · 109 reads

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  Because I'm a doctor, I know when you have an injury it will heal if it's clean enough to heal; if your injury is dirty, it won't heal. And so when you are talking in societies, we are also talking in healing processes, and for a good healing process, you

  4.1 · 54 votes · 45 reads

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  By including women in decision-making, city governments will be in a better position to fulfill their responsibility to ensure the safety of their residents, especially women and girls.

  4.7 · 14 votes · 54 reads

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  Chile has done a lot to rid itself of poverty, especially extreme poverty, since the return to democracy. But we still have a ways to go toward greater equity. This country does not have a neoliberal economic model anymore. We have put in place a lot of p

  5.0 · 16 votes · 40 reads

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  During my lifetime, I realized that discrimination was not accidental, that there were structural roots and causes to it. So if we wanted to change women's lives, we need to deal with those root causes.

  3.8 · 5 votes · 80 reads

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  Educational equality doesn't guarantee equality on the labor market. Even the most developed countries are not gender-equal. There are still glass ceilings and 'leaky pipelines' that prevent women from getting ahead in the workplace.

  4.6 · 60 votes · 116 reads

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  For me, a better democracy is a democracy where women do not only have the right to vote and to elect but to be elected.

  4.8 · 20 votes · 191 reads

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  Gender equality will only be reached if we are able to empower women.

  3.0 · 17 votes · 89 reads

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  Given political history in Chile, it seemed to me that there was a critical task of consolidating a democracy and creating healthy civic-military and political-military relationships.

  4.1 · 64 votes · 86 reads

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  Having been a head of state gives you the possibility of getting into places others can't go.

  4.7 · 58 votes · 105 reads

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  Having experienced personally and through my family the tragedy of Chile is something always present in my memory. I do not want events of that nature ever to happen again, and I have dedicated an important part of my life to ensuring that and to the reun

  4.5 · 38 votes · 2 reads

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  Having more women in company boards, in senior management, supervisory positions and workers in the formal sector is not only the right thing to do, but the smart thing to do. It's good for the bottom line.

  4.9 · 34 votes · 140 reads

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  I am a woman with a calling for social struggle and public service.

  3.5 · 36 votes · 55 reads

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  I believe that if you want to fight inequality you have to do it starting at infancy.

  3.0 · 12 votes · 193 reads

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  I took a gamble to exercise leadership without losing my feminine nature.

  4.2 · 53 votes · 195 reads

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  I was not born in a home where there were stereotypes. So that was very useful because it gave me the sense of possibilities, of flying, if I may say, of making my hopes and dreams a reality.

  4.0 · 51 votes · 190 reads

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  I wouldn't be honest if I told you that in some moment of my life I had a lot of rage - probably hate - I'm not sure of hate, but rage. But you know what happens is that then you realize you cannot do to others what you think nobody has to do to anybody.

  4.1 · 57 votes · 171 reads

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  I'm working for the women in the world, today; that's my essential issue.

  3.7 · 9 votes · 82 reads

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  In any area of the U.N. we... have to agree on certain language that can represent the same spirit, but that can be accepted by everyone.

  3.4 · 60 votes · 83 reads

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  In artillery exercises, women always win because they're more accurate.

  3.7 · 13 votes · 55 reads

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  In some places women have all the rights they deserve and in others there are big restrictions - in some countries they even mutilate women.

  4.5 · 29 votes · 61 reads

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  In today's interdependent world, a threat to one becomes a menace to all. And no state can defeat these challenges and threats alone.

  3.1 · 5 votes · 146 reads

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  It isn't that women are less ambitious,but women want to find a balance between work, love, and family.

  5.0 · 22 votes · 131 reads

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  It was said that Chile was not ready to vote for a woman, it was traditionally a sexist country. In the end, the reverse happened: the fact of being a woman became a symbol of the process of cultural change the country was undergoing.

  3.2 · 58 votes · 119 reads

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  My father respected and admired my mother and was a person who was always standing by my side, encouraging me to do more and believed in my capacity. So in that sense, my own experience was very good in becoming an empowered woman. From early on, I carrie

  3.6 · 20 votes · 155 reads

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  My message to women is: Women: We can do it. We are capable of doing almost anything, but we must learn we cannot do it all at once, we need to prioritize.

  3.8 · 64 votes · 155 reads

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  My top priority for 2012 will be to make a renewed push for women's economic empowerment and political participation.

  3.4 · 29 votes · 33 reads

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  One of the factors a country's economy depends on is human capital. If you don't provide women with adequate access to healthcare, education and employment, you lose at least half of your potential. So, gender equality and women's empowerment bring huge e

  3.3 · 39 votes · 114 reads

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  People see I am a mother and head of a household. Today in Chile, one-third of households are run by women. They wake up, take the children to school, go to work. To them I am hope.

  3.0 · 25 votes · 21 reads

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  The 2010 global gender gap report by the World Economic Forum shows that countries with better gender equality have faster-growing, more competitive economies.

  4.2 · 23 votes · 128 reads

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  The current global landscape is quite different from the not-too-distant past. The process of globalization has intensified, and the world is moving towards new forms of governance.

  4.7 · 61 votes · 117 reads

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  The possibility of my presidential candidacy emerged spontaneously in public opinion polls. For my part, I noticed people's affection when I was doing work on the ground. I think the important thing is that my candidacy was born from citizens themselves,

  4.3 · 58 votes · 1 reads

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  The respect for human rights is nowadays not so much a matter of having international standards, but rather questions of compliance with those standards.

  3.5 · 54 votes · 44 reads

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  There does not have to be trade-off between growth and social protection. A democracy does not mean much if it doesn't respond to the needs and will of its people.

  4.1 · 32 votes · 185 reads

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  There has been a cultural shift. It is difficult to measure all that right now, but Chilean women have seen my presidency as a source of pride. Women are performing in jobs in Chile now that 20 or 30 years ago nobody would have dared to imagine.

  3.0 · 31 votes · 130 reads

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  There is no city or country in the world where women and girls live free of the fear of violence. No leader can claim: 'this is not happening in my backyard.'

  4.8 · 5 votes · 17 reads

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  There's full consensus in the military that women shouldn't be in person-to-person combat. I don't know if we have enough experience to know whether this is the right approach. But women can be elsewhere. We have mandatory military service in Chile. I pus

  5.0 · 57 votes · 13 reads

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  U.N. Women was created due to the acknowledgement that gender equality and women's empowerment was still, despite progress, far from what it should be. Transforming political will and decisions, such as the Member States creating U.N. Women, into concrete

  4.4 · 39 votes · 136 reads

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  Violence against women in all its forms is a human rights violation. It's not something that any culture, religion or tradition propagates.

  4.5 · 6 votes · 129 reads

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  Violence ravaged my life. I was a victim of hatred, and I have dedicated my life to reversing that hatred.

  3.2 · 51 votes · 46 reads

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