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.

I'm working for the women in the world, today; that's my essential issue.

Women say that my election represents a cultural break with the past - a past of sexism, of misogyny.

You all want to know what is my dream? Very simple. To walk along the beach, holding the hand of my lover.

Violence against women in all its forms is a human rights violation. It's not something that any culture, religion or tradition propagates.

During my lifetime, I realized that discrimination was not accidental, that there were structural roots and causes to it. So if we wanted to change women's lives, we need to deal with those root causes.

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.