Our economies are built on the backs of all this unpaid labor that women do.
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Housework comes first, so girls often fall behind in school. Global statistics show that it’s increasingly girls, not boys, who don’t know how to read.
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Government funding that’s coming from the United States is making a huge difference on the ground in the developing world. It’s really palpable – it’s making a huge difference saving lives.
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The biggest pieces of work that we do are vaccines, because those save lives, and also family planning. Because if a woman can space the births of her children, it changes everything for her health and her child’s health.
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When we better understand the realities of these women’s lives, we are able to design and deliver solutions that are more useful to them.
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I learn in a different way. I learn experientially.
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If you don’t have an effective teacher in front of the classroom, you won’t change the trajectory for students.
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A woman with a voice is by definition a strong woman. But the search to find that voice can be remarkably difficult.
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What great changes have not been ambitious?
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When we invest in women, we invest in a powerful source of global development.
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All women, everywhere, have the same hopes: we want to be self-sufficient and create better lives for ourselves and our loved ones.
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Women and girls face a whole host of issues. We start with health, so we work very deeply on maternal deaths, making sure that a mom doesn’t die in childbirth, making sure that she has access, for instance, to AIDS medication.
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If you are successful, it is because somewhere, sometime, someone gave you a life or an idea that started you in the right direction. Remember also that you are indebted to life until you help some less fortunate person, just as you were helped.
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All lives have an equal value.
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If we don’t empower women, we don’t allow them to unlock the potential of themselves and their children.
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If you invest in a girl or a woman, you are investing in everybody else.
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