Feminism has also arrived to diplomacy. Gloria de la Fuente, 47, is Chile’s undersecretary of foreign affairs and the face of feminist foreign policy in Gabriel Boric’s progressive government. The initiative for a feminist foreign policy was launched in 2014 by Sweden and has since been joined by Spain, Mexico, Colombia, Canada, Luxembourg, Germany and France. The political scientist and academic was recently in Madrid for a whirlwind 24-hour visit during which she met with members of the Spanish government to continue promoting an egalitarian international relations agenda. The daughter of an attorney and a hairstylist, De la Fuente is a firm believer in merit and in the fight for equal opportunities. “Female leadership tends to be more inclusive,” she says in an interview that took place in the Spanish capital’s Casa de América.

Question. What is feminist foreign policy?

Answer. It has to do with Chile’s foreign policy commitment to democracy and human rights. It’s very difficult or even impossible to think about democracy in the 21st century without gender equality, which involves more than 50% of the population. International conflicts and climate change impact women and young girls in an unequal way, which in many cases, leads to forced migrations. In President Boric’s government, we have looked to promote and give visibility to this feminist agenda in order to consolidate important advances made in recent years.

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