Gender equality will only be reached if we are able to empower women. — Michelle Bachelet Copy Share Image
I'm working for the women in the world, today; that's my essential issue. — Michelle Bachelet Copy Share Image
In artillery exercises, women always win because they're more accurate. — Michelle Bachelet Copy Share Image
We have to make sure that women's issues are an essential element on the agendas of all heads of state, all governments. — Michelle Bachelet Copy Share Image
We have had scarce investment in women... One of my tasks is that everyone spends much more on women. — Michelle Bachelet Copy Share Image
My message to women is: Women: We can do it. We are capable of doing almost anything, but we must learn we… — Michelle Bachelet Copy Share Image
It isn't that women are less ambitious,but women want to find a balance between work, love, and family. — Michelle Bachelet Copy Share Image
My top priority for 2012 will be to make a renewed push for women's economic empowerment and political participation. — Michelle Bachelet Copy Share Image
There is no city or country in the world where women and girls live free of the fear of violence. No leader… — Michelle Bachelet Copy Share Image
As a major economic force worldwide, India and Indian companies have the opportunity to set the standards in Asia in terms of… — Michelle Bachelet Copy Share Image
Violence against women in all its forms is a human rights violation. It's not something that any culture, religion or tradition propagates. — Michelle Bachelet Copy Share Image
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… — Michelle Bachelet Copy Share Image
When women earn the money for the family, everyone in the family benefits. We also know that when women have an income,… — Michelle Bachelet Copy Share Image
Educational equality doesn't guarantee equality on the labor market. Even the most developed countries are not gender-equal. There are still glass ceilings… — Michelle Bachelet Copy Share Image
As a vibrant force in civil society, women continue to press for their rights, equal participation in decision-making, and the upholding of… — Michelle Bachelet Copy Share Image
We simply can no longer afford to deny the full potential of one half of the population. The world needs to tap… — Michelle Bachelet Copy Share Image
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… — Michelle Bachelet Copy Share Image
As women politicians, we talk about the most difficult themes of state security, foreign relations and development models, then ask, 'How do… — Michelle Bachelet Copy Share Image
As more and more women, men and young people raise their voices and become active in local government, and more local leaders… — Michelle Bachelet Copy Share Image
U.N. Women was created due to the acknowledgement that gender equality and women's empowerment was still, despite progress, far from what it… — Michelle Bachelet Copy Share Image
Women say that my election represents a cultural break with the past - a past of sexism, of misogyny. — Michelle Bachelet Copy Share Image
The 2010 global gender gap report by the World Economic Forum shows that countries with better gender equality have faster-growing, more competitive economies. — Michelle Bachelet Copy Share Image
In some places women have all the rights they deserve and in others there are big restrictions - in some countries they… — Michelle Bachelet Copy Share Image
By including women in decision-making, city governments will be in a better position to fulfill their responsibility to ensure the safety of… — Michelle Bachelet Copy Share Image
It was said that Chile was not ready to vote for a woman, it was traditionally a sexist country. In the end,… — Michelle Bachelet Copy Share Image
Having more women in company boards, in senior management, supervisory positions and workers in the formal sector is not only the right… — Michelle Bachelet Copy Share Image
One of the factors a country's economy depends on is human capital. If you don't provide women with adequate access to healthcare,… — Michelle Bachelet Copy Share Image
I made an effort to ensure social safeguards. But our economy has to grow - and Chile, with a population of 17 million, cannot… — Michelle Bachelet Copy Share Image
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… — Michelle Bachelet Copy Share Image
You have to be doing things that matter - responsibility, but also responsibility with epic and beautiful and noble tasks. — Michelle Bachelet Copy Share Image
I was not born in a home where there were stereotypes. So that was very useful because it gave me the sense of possibilities,… — Michelle Bachelet Copy Share Image
It was said that Chile was not ready to vote for a woman, it was traditionally a sexist country. In the end, the reverse… — Michelle Bachelet Copy Share Image
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… — Michelle Bachelet Copy Share Image
My father respected and admired my mother and was a person who was always standing by my side, encouraging me to do more and… — Michelle Bachelet Copy Share Image
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… — Michelle Bachelet Copy Share Image
We have had scarce investment in women... One of my tasks is that everyone spends much more on women. — Michelle Bachelet Copy Share Image
Having been a head of state gives you the possibility of getting into places others can't go. — Michelle Bachelet Copy Share Image
The 2010 global gender gap report by the World Economic Forum shows that countries with better gender equality have faster-growing, more competitive economies. — Michelle Bachelet Copy Share Image
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… — Michelle Bachelet Copy Share Image
