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

I took a gamble to exercise leadership without losing my feminine nature.

We have had scarce investment in women... One of my tasks is that everyone spends much more on women.

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.

As a major economic force worldwide, India and Indian companies have the opportunity to set the standards in Asia in terms of women's right to decent work.

The 2010 global gender gap report by the World Economic Forum shows that countries with better gender equality have faster-growing, more competitive economies.

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.