FP article - Why Women Are a Foreign Policy Issue

An article from the magazine Foreign Policy on the importance of women’s participation in solving global problems.

"On a trip to Afghanistan in the summer of 2009, not long after my appointment as the U.S. State Department's ambassador at large for global women's issues, I stopped for dinner with a group of Afghan women activists in Kabul. One woman opened our conversation with a plea: "Please don't see us as victims, but look to us as the leaders we are."

Read the article here: http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2012/04/23/why_women_are_a_foreign_policy_issue