| |  Office of the Senior Adviser to the Secretary of State for Women's Empowerment (S/WE)
Our Mission
 The mission of the Office of the Senior Adviser to the Secretary of State for Women's Empowerment (S/WE), headed by Senior Adviser Shirin Tahir-Kheli, is to advise the Secretary of State on strategies the Department of State should implement to help empower women worldwide. S/WE also administers the Women Leaders' Working Group, a network chaired by Secretary Rice comprised of key women Ministers and Heads of State, which meets periodically to address the critical challenges to women's empowerment.
S/WE implements its mission by working closely with senior U.S. officials, foreign governments, and civil society to highlight women's empowerment as a bilateral and multilateral priority on the U.S. foreign policy agenda. S/WE also launches cost-effective and high-impact model programs that showcase the impact and importance of creating greater political, economic, education, and legal access for women wide. | | | Highlights | Secretary Rice Remarks at The Women’s Conference 2008
Secretary Rice (Oct. 22): "... I still think that in our society we have a tendency toward role definition that sees women in particular roles. But it’s changing very, very rapidly. When you have this presidential campaign in which you’ve had Hillary Clinton, who I think was terrific, and now Sarah Palin, who is a fantastic person; and when I might say we haven’t had a white male Secretary of State in 12 years – because there was Madeleine Albright and then Colin Powell and myself -- I think the glass ceiling is being shattered." Full Text
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to Host Women Leaders' Working Group
Secretary Rice hosted the Women Leaders’ Working Group for a breakfast on September 25, 2008, at 8:00 a.m. in the Empire Room of the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel at 301 Park Avenue, New York, New York. Remarks | Interview With Michel Ghandour of Al-Hurra |
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