I Am A Woman With A Calling

Having Experienced Personally And Through My Family The Tragedy Of Chile Is Something Always Present In My Memory. I Do Not Want Events Of That Nature Ever To Happen Again, And I Have Dedicated An Important Part Of My Life To Ensuring That And To The Reunion Of All Chileans.

We Have Had Scarce Investment In Women... One Of My Tasks Is That Everyone Spends Much More On Women.

The 2010 Global Gender Gap Report By The World Economic Forum Shows That Countries With Better Gender Equality Have Faster-growing, More Competitive Economies.

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.

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.