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In Some Places Women Have All The Rights They Deserve And In Others There Are Big Restrictions - In Some Countries They Even Mutilate Women.

It Isn't That Women Are Less Ambitious,but Women Want To Find A Balance Between Work, Love, And Family.

There's Full Consensus In The Military That Women Shouldn't Be In Person-to-person Combat. I Don't Know If We Have Enough Experience To Know Whether This Is The Right Approach. But Women Can Be Elsewhere. We Have Mandatory Military Service In Chile. I Pushed For Women In All Areas.

My Father Respected And Admired My Mother And Was A Person Who Was Always Standing By My Side, Encouraging Me To Do More And Believed In My Capacity. So In That Sense, My Own Experience Was Very Good In Becoming An Empowered Woman. From Early On, I Carried That Strong Message: 'you Can Do It.' So I Never Had Any Doubt That Women Can Do A Lot.

Given Political History In Chile, It Seemed To Me That There Was A Critical Task Of Consolidating A Democracy And Creating Healthy Civic-military And Political-military Relationships.