It Isn't That Women Are

In Some Places Women Have All The Rights They Deserve And In Others There Are Big Restrictions - In Some Countries They Even Mutilate Women.

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.

As A Doctor, When I Was Minister Of Health And Would Go Somewhere, Little Girls Would Come Up To Me And Say, 'i Want To Be Like You One Day, I Want To Be A Doctor.' Now, They Tell Me, 'i Want To Be President Just Like You.' All Of Us Can Dream As Big As We Want.

It Isn't That Women Are Less Ambitious,but Women Want To Find A Balance Between Work, Love, And Family.

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.