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Women speaking up for themselves and for those around them is the strongest force we have to change the world.

Melinda Gates

In different places you run into myths around vaccination or around family planning. In the United States, one of the myths that existed for a long time, that has been completely debunked, was that autism was linked to a vaccine.
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Women around the world should have a tool that helps them plan their pregnancies.
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If you invest in a girl or a woman, you are investing in everybody else.
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I care much more about saving the lives of mothers and babies than I do about a fancy museum somewhere.
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My background was computer science and business school, so eventually I worked my way up where I was running product groups – development, testing, marketing, user education.
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If you can’t travel to the developing world, look at helping to fund a woman with a small loan and follow her. Learn her story. Learn about the difference that you’re making.
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Poverty disproportionately affects women around the world.
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With economic opportunity, sometimes it’s making sure that if they’re not in a place where they can have good jobs, that when they have economic opportunity, they have digital tools to use.
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After a number of years dating, we decided we were good partners.
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Everyone agrees that the failure of our high schools is tragic. It’s bad business, and it’s bad policy. But we act as if it can’t be helped. It can be helped. We designed these high schools; we can redesign them.
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When we invest in women and girls, we are investing in the people who invest in everyone else.
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Having children made us look differently at all these things that we take for granted, like taking your child to get a vaccine against measles or polio.
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The biggest killers of children around the world are two things: diarrhea and pneumonia. When you think about it, in the United States, kids don’t die of diarrhea anymore, but it’s a huge problem in the developing world.
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You can have the best vaccines for a woman or her child, but if you can’t get her to come and get them then they won’t work.
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Women speaking up for themselves and for those around them is the strongest force we have to change the world.
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As a parent, the responsible thing to do – if you love your child – is to vaccinate your child.
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