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Giving women education, work, the ability to control their own income, inherit and own property, benefits the society. If a woman is empowered, her children and her family will be better off. If families prosper, the village prospers, and eventually so does the whole country.

Women have a better understanding of social issues, and better representation gives them an opportunity to address these issues.

In my community, women are as important as males, and they are playing an equal role in the society.

As women slowly gain power, their values and priorities are reshaping the agenda. A multitude of studies show that when women control the family funds, they generally spend more on health, nutrition, and education - and less on alcohol and cigarettes.

Women have demanded and gotten better jobs and more power. But the one thing we deserve is a better relationship with ourselves.

There is nothing of greater importance to the well-being of society at large - of man as well as woman - than the true proper position of woman.

Women, nowhere in the world, have the kind of important position in society in the amount that they ought to have.

I don't think women hold all the answers, but with their skills, their strengths, we can get to a better place.

Women hold up more than half the sky and represent much of the world's unrealized potential. They are the educators. They raise the children. They hold families together and increasingly drive economies. They are natural leaders. We need their full engagement... in government, business and civil society.

It's very important to balance things; it's imperative to do something for the society, and women in particular, and help women who aren't in position to help themselves.