What is being called the UN 'gender architecture' is more like a shack. Women need a bigger global house if equality is ever to become a reality.

We know that priorities are amiss in the world when a man gets a military medal of honor for killing another man and a dishonorable discharge for loving one.

Whether there are innately female leadership styles... is not really the right question. It is more important to ask why there has been so little attention paid to women leaders over the years as well as why the styles of leading more often exhibited by women are particularly useful at this critical moment in history.

Feminism is an entire world view or gestalt, not just a laundry list of women's issues.

Women have a lot to say about how to advance women's rights, and governments need to learn from that, listen to the movement and respond.

Sexual, racial, gender violence and other forms of discrimination and violence in a culture cannot be eliminated without changing culture.

We do not need, and indeed never will have, all the answers before we act ... It is often through taking action that we can discover some of them.