Losing the Other Half

“Women’s rights, gender equality and women’s empowerment is essential not only for women, it’s essential for the whole society. 

And we have so much evidence of that in the world.  If you, for example, have 100 people and you’re only using the capacity of the half, you’re losing the other half.  

So if we are able to untap and unleash women’s potential, the whole country will benefit from that.”
-- Michele Bachelet, January 8, 2013