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    How Madeleine Albright made women's issues central to foreign policy

    by Wynne Davis Mar 25, 2022 3 minutes
    Former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright was an outspoken advocate of women's issues and making them central to foreign policy.

    When Madeleine Albright became secretary of state in 1997, she was the first woman to do so. It was an achievement that made her the highest-ranking woman in government at the time and one she took great pride in.

    "I did love being a first," Albright said in September 2016 during a conversation with the National Museum of American History. "Being a woman was obviously a big breakthrough, and [I'm] very proud of that. But the fact that I could be

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