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

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Michelle Bachelet
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: September 29
Epidemiologist
Politician
President Of Chile
Surgeon
Verónica Michelle Bachelet Jeria
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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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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 need to make things right.
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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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I took a gamble to exercise leadership without losing my feminine nature.
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You have to be doing things that matter - responsibility, but also responsibility with epic and beautiful and noble tasks.
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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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I'm working for the women in the world, today that's my essential issue.
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Gender equality will only be reached if we are able to empower 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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We have had scarce investment in women... One of my tasks is that everyone spends much more on women.
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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.
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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. Life is important for me and not any kind of life, quality too of life.
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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 policies that will ensure that economic growth goes hand in hand with social justice.
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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.
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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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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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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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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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My top priority for 2012 will be to make a renewed push for women's economic empowerment and political participation.
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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.
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