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.
MELINDA GATESAround 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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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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If we don’t empower women, we don’t allow them to unlock the potential of themselves and their children.
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That’s universal – we all want to bring every good thing to our children. But what’s not universal is our ability to provide every good thing.
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Our economies are built on the backs of all this unpaid labor that women do.
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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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Make sure you continue to trust what you know now about yourself and stay true to what you believe in.
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I think it’s very important that we instill in our kids that it has nothing to do with their name or their situation that they’re growing up in; it has to do with who they are as an individual.
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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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Birth control has almost completely and totally disappeared from the global health agenda, and the victims of this paralysis are the people of Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia.
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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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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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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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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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Vaccines are a miracle cure. Eight out of 10 children are getting vaccines.
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If you invest in a girl or a woman, you are investing in everybody else.
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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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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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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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I think the Americans need to understand that a lot of times the children are bored in school, and that is why they are not staying in.
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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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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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Deep human connection is … the purpose and the result of a meaningful life – and it will inspire the most amazing acts of love, generosity, and humanity.
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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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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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Kids are falling through the cracks and nobody notices it. That to me is what’s wrong with the school system.
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You can’t save kids just with vaccines.
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