Michelle Bachelet
Michelle Bachelet
Verónica Michelle Bachelet Jeriais a Chilean Socialist Party politician who has served as the President of Chile since 11 March 2014. She previously served as President from 2006 to 2010, becoming the first woman in her country to do so. After leaving the presidency and while not immediately re-electable, she was appointed the first executive director of the newly created United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women. In December 2013, Bachelet was re-elected as President of...
NationalityChilean
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth29 September 1951
CitySantiago, Chile
CountryChile
I am a woman, a socialist, separated and agnostic - all the sins together.
In this welcome meeting we expressed our willingness to work together on a bilateral agenda.
Chile has taken an enormous step in creating a country by everyone and for everyone. My commitment is we will work in every possible way without rest very close to all of you.
I was a woman, separated, a socialist, an agnostic ... all possible sins together.
My commitment will be to travel with you on yet another stretch of this great promenade of freedom we have been opening.
Who could have thought 20, ten or five years ago, that Chile would elect a woman to be president!
Who would have thought 20, 10, five years ago, that Chile would elect a woman president? ... Thank you for inviting me to lead this voyage.
We have to look at how much the coffer holds to calculate the percentage rate by which we can increase it.
We want a more prosperous, more just, more equal, more inclusive future. I shall keep my word. I shall tell you what I think and I shall do what I say. I give you my word as a woman.
Together we recovered democracy for Chile. Now I invite you to be a part of another historic moment by electing Chile's first ever woman president. Let's make history.
My message to women is: Women: We can do it. We are capable of doing almost anything, but we must learn we cannot do it all at once, we need to prioritize.
In today's interdependent world, a threat to one becomes a menace to all. And no state can defeat these challenges and threats alone.
Women's strength, women's industry, women's wisdom are humankind's greatest untapped resource. The challenge then for U.N. Women is to show our diverse constituencies how this resource can be effectively tapped in ways that benefit us all.
We have had scarce investment in women... One of my tasks is that everyone spends much more on women.