Center Quote by Tedros Adhanom

Governments everywhere have ministries dedicated to women's affairs. I know of only one with a Ministry for Women Empowerment: Indonesia. Charged with the 'realization…

— Arancha Gonzalez

As many as half of Ethiopias girls become wives before becoming adults. But Ethiopia is also a place where lasting solutions to child marriage…

— Helene D. Gayle

It's long past time we started focusing on the solutions that actually keep women healthy, instead of using basic aspects of women's health as…

— Martha Plimpton

I want the government in the DRC and everywhere where gender inequality is a problem, it's not only an African problem, to take this…

— Margot Wallstrom

In the developing world, it's about time that women are on the agenda. For instance, 80 percent of small-subsistence farmers in sub-Saharan Africa are…

— Melinda Gates

Our Bodies, Ourselves is the bible for women's health--It has served as a way for women, across ethnic, racial, religious, and geographical boundaries, to…

— Byllye Avery

When the history of African development is written, it will be clear that a turning point involved the empowerment of women.

— Sheryl WuDunn

We need to shift from an economic to a humanitarian organizing principle for human civilization. And women, en masse, should be saying so.

— Marianne Williamson

NGOs have a significant role to play, alongside governments, in improving the status of women.

— Jenny Shipley

Human development, not secularization, is what's key to women's empowerment in the transforming Middle East.

— Dalia Mogahed

How the hell can you change gender in the rural areas? I am a woman. We don't have good doctors; we are not rich…

— Caster Semenya

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.…

— Michelle Bachelet