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Leadership desperately needs women.

We need to empower women. Give women a voice in the decision-making process. Give women a political voice where they can champion, for their own welfare. And, of course, for us. United Nations - organizations, agencies - we need to do our part.

People don't always want to have females as leaders.

I want to organize so that women see ourselves as people who are entitled to power, entitled to leadership.

At present, our country needs women's idealism and determination, perhaps more in politics than anywhere else.

Leaders of the future will have to be visionary and be able to bring people in - real communicators. These are things that women bring to leadership and executive positions, and it's going to be incredibly valuable and incredibly in demand.

If more women are in leadership roles, we'll stop assuming they shouldn't be.

I think we need the feminine qualities of leadership, which include attention to aesthetics and the environment, nurturing, affection, intuition and the qualities that make people feel safe and cared for.

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.

You have to be a leader with a vision, and you have to show Iowans that you want it... and not just a woman.