How women will lead us to freedom, justice and peace | H.E. Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

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🗓️ 26 June 2020

⏱️ 14 minutes

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“I was the first woman president of an African nation, and I do believe more countries ought to try that,” says H.E. Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Nobel laureate and former president of Liberia. Telling the story of how Liberian women helped rebuild their country after years of civil war, Sirleaf discusses why gender equality is essential to peace and prosperity -- and shares her plan to uplift a generation of women prepared to take leadership positions and catalyze social change.

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0:00.0	I'm Elise Hugh with today's TED Talks Daily.
0:06.4	I'm super excited about today's episode.
0:08.9	It's an incredible success story.
0:11.2	It's about what happens when you make a major shift by fundamentally changing the makeup
0:16.7	of the people in power in a country.
0:19.8	The Nobel laureate and global leader,
0:21.7	Her Excellency, Ellen Johnson, Sirleaf,
0:24.5	who's 81 years old but still unstoppable,
0:27.7	tells her remarkable story in her talk
0:30.1	from Ted Women, 2019.
0:34.4	I was the first woman president of an African nation.
0:45.0	And I do believe more countries ought to try that.
1:01.0	Thank you. or to try that. Once the glass ceiling has been broken, it can never be put back together.
1:10.9	However, one would try to do that.
1:15.8	When I assumed the presidency of Liberia,
1:22.2	in January 2006,
1:34.0	we faced the tremendous challenges of a post-conflict nation.
1:52.0	Collapsed economy, destroyed infrastructure, dysfunctional institutions, enormous debt, bloated silver service. We also faced the challenges of those left behind, the primary victims of all civil wars,
2:08.3	women and children.
2:12.6	On my first day in office,
2:18.6	I was excited and I was exhausted.
2:26.3	It had been a very long climb
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