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And the women decided that they would train not the next generation of girls, because they had grown too old already, but the next generation.

And what these women understood is sometimes the most important things that we do and that we spend our time on are those things that we cannot measure.

In 1986, I moved to Rwanda, and I worked with a very small group of Rwandan women to start that country's first microfinance bank.

We built this institution based on social justice, gender equity, this idea of empowering women.

And though she had been part of building a liberal party, a political party that was focused on diversity and tolerance, about three months before the genocide, she switched parties and joined the extremist party, Hutu Power, and she became the Minister of Justice under the genocide regime and was known for inciting men to kill faster and stop behaving like women.

And so in a gathering where we're focused on women, while it is so critical that we invest in our girls and we even the playing field and we find ways to honor them, we have to remember that the girls and the women are most isolated and violated and victimized and made invisible in those very societies where our men and our boys feel disempowered, unable to provide.

PM: It is, for all of us, men and women, finding our ways of defining our roles, and doing them in ways that make a difference in the world and shape the future.

As you travel now all over the world, which you do frequently, how do you assess this global narrative around the story of women and girls?

The bottom line that I decided was actually women's issues are the hardest issues, because they are the ones that have to do with life and death in so many aspects, and because, as I said, it is really central to the way that we think about things.

Now for instance, some of the wars that took place when I was in office, a lot of them, the women were the main victims of it.

The women in Bosnia were being raped.

So I said to my assistant, "Invite the other women permanent representatives."

And I thought when I'd get to my apartment that there'd be a lot of women there.

I get there, and there are six other women, out of 183.

So the countries that had women representatives were Canada, Kazakhstan, Philippines, Trinidad Tobago, Jamaica, Lichtenstein and me.

And we lobbied on behalf of women's issues.

So we managed to get two women judges on this war crimes tribunal.

MA: Well I do think, when there are more women, that the tone of the conversation changes, and also the goals of the conversation change.

But it doesn't mean that the whole world would be a lot better if it were totally run by women.

But the bottom line is that there is a way, when there are more women at the table, that there's an attempt to develop some understanding.

So for instance, what I did when I went to Burundi, we'd got Tutsi and Hutu women together to talk about some of the problems that had taken place in Rwanda.

I think it helps in terms of the support if there are other women in the room.

When I was Secretary of State, there were only 13 other women foreign ministers.

But I think it really does help to have a critical mass of women in a series of foreign policy positions.

So if you have women in a variety of foreign policy posts, they can support each other when there are budget decisions being made in their own countries.

More women's voices at the table?

I think that we need to help in other countries to train women to be in political office, to figure out how they can in fact develop political voices.

I think we also need to be supportive when businesses are being created and just make sure that women help each other.

Now I have a saying that I feel very strongly about, because I am of a certain age where, when I started in my career, believe it or not, there were other women who criticized me: "Why aren't you in the carpool line?" or "Aren't your children suffering because you're not there all the time?"

And my motto is that there's a special place in hell for women who don't help each other.

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