Albright, Madeleine

Interview with Madeleine Albright, who talks about International Women’s Day and states her hope that in 100 years, we won’t be having the same conversations about women and equality.

• Well, this is an amazing event where it is a real attempt to mobilize a lot of women on behalf of other women throughout the world in order to make a powerful noise, really. Because we know that when women are politically and economically empowered in their societies, the societies are more stable, there are educational principles passed on to the next generation socially and culturally. And women are more than half the populations in every country in the world. So, this is really about the empowerment of women, economically and politically.
• Very exciting. And International Women’s Day – I know we’re about the hundred year anniversary: do you think a hundred years from now we’re going to be having the same conversations? Do you hope that we won’t be?
• Well, I certainly hope we won’t. I think obviously, a lot of advances have been made throughout the world, but there’s a awful lot of work that needs to be done, and I think it does have to be done by women to help other women, and so that’s what – International Women’s Day is really a way of pulling everybody together and thinking about it on that day. But what we were advocating is, this is something that has to happen every day, and we have to understand how much women can do throughout the world to improve their societies.
• Well, thank you so much.