Best quotes by Michelle Bachelet on Women

Checkout quotes by Michelle Bachelet on Women

• ‟ 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.

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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 economic benefits.

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

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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.

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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.

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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 pushed for women in all areas.

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• ‟ Women's strength, women's industry, women's wisdom are humankind's greatest untapped resource. The challenge then for U.N. Women is to show our diverse constituencies how this resource can be effectively tapped in ways that benefit us all.

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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.

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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.

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• ‟ As a major economic force worldwide, India and Indian companies have the opportunity to set the standards in Asia in terms of women's right to decent work.

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• ‟ As more and more women, men and young people raise their voices and become active in local government, and more local leaders take action for the safety of women and girls, change happens.

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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 carried that strong message: 'You can do it.' So I never had any doubt that women can do a lot.

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• ‟ We have had scarce investment in women... One of my tasks is that everyone spends much more on women.

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

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

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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.

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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 perspective that the focus is not the position but the job at hand.

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• ‟ Women say that my election represents a cultural break with the past - a past of sexism, of misogyny.

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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.'

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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.

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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.

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• ‟ As a vibrant force in civil society, women continue to press for their rights, equal participation in decision-making, and the upholding of the principles of the revolution by the highest levels of leadership in Egypt.

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

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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.

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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.

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• ‟ We have to make sure that women's issues are an essential element on the agendas of all heads of state, all governments.

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