Make sure you continue to trust what you know now about yourself and stay true to what you believe in.
MELINDA GATESWomen and girls should be able to determine their own future, no matter where they’re born.
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Around the world we have girls in primary school at about the same rate now as boys, but keeping them in quality secondary schools is where the world is lagging. I’m seeing a lot of countries look at this now.
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I felt suicidal. I couldn’t stop crying. I remember thinking, wouldn’t it be great if the car crashed and I died?
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Take time to learn about the lives of women around the world-and try to play a small part in their fight to create the future they deserve.
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If you ask, who has the chance to move into the city and get a good job out in the developing world? It’s a man. Who’s left to care for the kids back at home? The woman is.
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I went to business school, and I went straight from that to a nine-year career at Microsoft. Eventually, I ran a big chunk of the consumer products division for Microsoft.Then I left with the birth of our first daughter because Bill and I both wanted to have a few kids.
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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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We [with Bill Gates] started to make decisions about what we’d invest in. Then I actually started traveling for the foundation. I’ve probably been to India now eight times at least and Africa numerous times.
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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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When we invest in women and girls, we are investing in the people who invest in everyone else.
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Bill and I both firmly believe that even the most difficult global health problems can be solved.
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Women are the centre of the family. It’s the woman who decides what’s eaten in the house, when to have the kids vaccinated; everything that has to do with the children’s health revolves around her.
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Vaccines are a miracle cure. Eight out of 10 children are getting vaccines.
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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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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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The premise of this foundation is one life on this planet is no more valuable than the next.
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We look in our own backyard and say, ‘How do we help at-risk families, at risk youth? How do we think through some of the problems affecting the Pacific Northwest and make some change there?’
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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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When we invest in women, we invest in a powerful source of global development.
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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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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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My undergraduate work was in computer science and economics. It just happened to be at that time when 34 percent of computer-science majors were women. We didn’t realize it was at the peak at the time.
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It’s important to remember that behind every data point is a daughter, a mother, a sister—a person with hopes and dreams.
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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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It is still just unbelievable to us that diarrhea is one of the leading causes of child deaths in the world.
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You are indebted to life until you help some less fortunate person, just as you were helped.
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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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