Career and family tough for women: Chilean president

How can women strike a balance between career and family? To Chile's first female president, Michelle Bachelet, the answer is simple: no way.

In a speech at the Party School of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) yesterday morning, the overachieving mother of three spoke candidly of the realities of being a female leader.

But she said the world would lose more without women's participation in social affairs.