U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton delivers remarks with Adi Tafuna’i, Women in Business Development, Inc., and Pacific Island Forum Secretariat Deputy Secretary for Economic Governance and Security Andie Fong Toy at the Rarotonga Dialogue on Gender Equality in Rarotonga, Cook Islands, August 31, 2012. You can read Secretary Clinton’s remarks here. [State Department photo by Ola Thorsen/ Public Domain]

Ambassador-at-Large for Global Women’s Issues Melanne Verveer Delivers Remarks on Evidence and Impact: Closing the Gender Data Gap at Gallup in Washington, DC on July 19, 2012. [Go to http://video.state.gov for more video and text transcript.

Ambassador-at-Large for Global Women’s Issues Melanne Verveer delivers a video message to the International AIDS Conference 2012 on women, girls, and gender equality. [Go to http://video.state.gov for more video and text transcript.]

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton delivers remarks on Evidence and Impact: Closing the Gender Data Gap at Gallup, Inc., in Washington, D.C., on July 19, 2012. [State Department photo/ Public Domain]

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton Delivers Remarks on Evidence and Impact: Closing the Gender Data Gap at Gallup in Washington, DC on July 19, 2012. [Go to http://video.state.gov for more video and text transcript.]

Remarks
Hillary Rodham Clinton
Secretary of State
Gallup
Washington, DC
July 19, 2012

Thank you very much. Well, it’s wonderful being here with all of you today, and I want to start by thanking Gallup for co-sponsoring this conference with the State Department and hosting us here this morning. Jim Clifton told me that this used to be the convention center in Washington in the late 1880s and that men would come here and tie their horses up down below and have all kinds of meetings. So it’s great that we’re back here today, and I am grateful to Jim Clifton and his team for joining us to highlight the urgent need for more and better information about women and gender equality around the world.

I’m pleased that so many thinkers and leaders in this field are here today. You’ve just heard from one of them, Dr. Jim Kim, the new President of the World Bank, and we’re so pleased that he’s in this position; Cheryl Mills, my chief of staff and counselor at the State Department who has really driven this process forward inside the State Department; and so many of you who are here with us today – all the panelists who will participate in today’s discussion and everyone who will leave here committed to following through on what we have said. MORE.

Ambassador-at-Large for Global Women’s Issues Melanne Verveer hosts a civil society forum on the U.S. Department of State Policy Guidance on Promoting Gender Equality to Achieve Our National Security and Foreign Policy Objectives, at the Department of State in Washington, D.C., on April 9, 2012. [State Department photo/ Public Domain]