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Turner Touts Female-Dominated Foundation

By EDITH M. LEDERER

ASSOCIATED PRESS

November 24, 2003

UNITED NATIONS (AP) - Media mogul Ted Turner has taken a small step to demonstrate his belief that women should run the world because men have "mucked it up" with too much warfare and military spending.

The United Nations Foundation he established six years ago to distribute the $1 billion he pledged to U.N. causes has a new female-dominated board of directors - and Turner said it's about time.

"I've said for years and I'm really serious about it, I think men should be barred from holding public office for a hundred years," Turner said in a recent interview. "The men have been running the world for the last thousands of years and they've mucked it up something awful."

Turner said if women were in control "it would be a much more peaceful, prosperous, equitable world in a very short period of time."

"You'd have a huge shift away from military budgets and into education and health care," said the CNN founder. "And we're trying to set the example."

Last year, the foundation had five men and five women on its board.

When Gro Harlem Brundtland completed her term as director-general of the World Health Organization in July, the foundation's nominating committee invited her to join the board. Brundtland, Norway's first female prime minister, joined earlier this month.