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Women are half the population and they know how to take care of themselves, if they are only given access to health care.

In 2009, the proportion of American women who were married dropped below 50 percent.

Women are the primary healthcare consumers in the country. 80 percent of all healthcare decisions are made by women.

I think a lot of women are underestimated.

Fully 57 percent of American college students are women. Life insurance companies sell more policies to women than to men. As women continue to draw on experience and education, they're accelerating their numbers in upper management, too.

Half of my employees are women.

Since Sept. 11, many of the wars of our generation are in the Muslim world. So as a woman, I have access to 50 percent of the population that my male colleagues don't.

We simply can no longer afford to deny the full potential of one half of the population. The world needs to tap into the talent and wisdom of women. Whether the issue is food security, economic recovery, health, or peace and security, the participation of women is needed now more than ever.

Women do two thirds of the world's work. Yet they earn only one tenth of the world's income and own less than one percent of the world's property. They are among the poorest of the world's poor.

The heyday of woman's life is the shady side of fifty.