If you want to lift up an economy in Africa, you basically start with the women.
MELINDA GATESMy 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.
More Melinda Gates Quotes
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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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One life is worth no more or less than any other.
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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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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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Make sure you continue to trust what you know now about yourself and stay true to what you believe in.
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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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Now, as smartphones are coming up, there are all kinds of apps that will start to be developed that will help women.
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Women around the world should have a tool that helps them plan their pregnancies.
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Men make different investments than women do. Women tend to invest more of their earnings than men do in their family’s well-being – as much as 10 times more.
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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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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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Bill [Gates] and I believe philanthropy can only be effective if it starts things and proves whether they actually work or not. That’s the place that governments often don’t want to, or can’t, work.
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After a number of years dating, we decided we were good partners.
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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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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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