Half the Sky Movement: Hillary Clinton on Economic Empowerment

Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton talks about the need to value women's work around the world for the Half the Sky Movement. Hillary Clinton is the 67th United States Secretary of State, serving in the administration of President Barack Obama. She was a United States Senator for New York from 2001 to 2009. As the wife of the 42nd President of the United States, Bill Clinton, she was the First Lady of the United States from 1993 to 2001. In the 2008 election, Clinton was a leading candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination. http://www.halftheskymovement.org www.facebook.com/halftheskymovement @Half Transcript: "I remember being in Africa in the 90s with a group of very sophisticated economists and everywhere you looked women were in the markets, women were in the fields, women were fetching firewood, women were carrying water, women were tending babies, everywhere you looked women were working. And I had this, to me, surreal conversation about, 'How do we not value this work that women do that is at the base of every society?' And, you know, the economists said, you know, 'Well it's not paid work,' or, 'It's too small to be counted,' but if it stopped, you know, everything else would too."