The 2010 global gender gap report by the World Economic Forum shows that countries with better gender equality have faster-growing, more competitive economies. – Michelle Bachelet
Educational equality doesnt 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. – Michelle Bachelet
I was not born in a home where there were stereotypes. So that was very useful because it gave me the sense of possibilities, of flying, if I may say, of making my hopes and dreams a reality. – Michelle Bachelet
Violence against women in all its forms is a human rights violation. Its not something that any culture, religion or tradition propagates. – Michelle Bachelet
In America everybody is of opinion that he has no social superiors, since all men are equal, but he does not admit that he has no social inferiors, for, from the time of Jefferson onward, the doctrine that all men are equal applies only upwards, not downwards. – Bertrand Russell, Unpopular Essays, 1950