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We have had scarce investment in women... One of my tasks is that everyone spends much more on women.
Michelle Bachelet
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Michelle Bachelet
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: September 29
Epidemiologist
Politician
President Of Chile
Surgeon
Verónica Michelle Bachelet Jeria
Veronica Michelle Bachelet Jeria
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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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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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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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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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I took a gamble to exercise leadership without losing my feminine nature.
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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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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, driven by the people and which the parties picked up favourably.
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