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Michelle Bachelet Moved Chilean Government from Macho to Maternal

Michelle Bachelet is a divorced mother of three, a self-described socialist and an unapologetic atheist, an unlikely profile for the president of Chile, a conservative, Catholic country, which elected her in 2006, the first woman to rise to the top of the dominantly male hierarchy. Before achieving the presidency, she was the first female defense minister in all of the Americas (that includes the United States and Canada) and when she first sat down with her stunned male counterparts in Latin America, she ticked off all that was obvious – "I'm a woman" – along with her marital ...

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