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.
MELINDA GATESIn 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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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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As a parent, the responsible thing to do – if you love your child – is to vaccinate your child.
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I learn in a different way. I learn experientially.
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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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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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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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Make sure you continue to trust what you know now about yourself and stay true to what you believe in.
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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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You are indebted to life until you help some less fortunate person, just as you were helped.
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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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Bill and I both firmly believe that even the most difficult global health problems can be solved.
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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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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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The premise of this foundation is one life on this planet is no more valuable than the next.
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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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