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Lois Frankel: “If we don't advance girls and women there will be no progress. There will not be economic progress, there will not be…”

On the recordDecember 11, 2018
If we don't advance girls and women there will be no progress. There will not be economic progress, there will not be progress in security of the world.
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Lois Frankel
Democratic · Florida

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Stressing the importance of women's advancement for global progress.

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