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.
MELINDA GATESWe 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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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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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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Poverty disproportionately affects women around the world.
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Now we just really need to do the work, which we’re doing, to get contraceptives out to women worldwide.
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Philanthropy is not about the money. It’s about using whatever resources you have at your fingertips and applying them to improving the world.
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All lives have an equal value.
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Sometimes it’s the people you can’t help who inspire you the most.
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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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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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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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Helping people doesn’t have to be an unsound financial strategy.
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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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After a number of years dating, we decided we were good partners.
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I realized that the only way to get into a good college was to be valedictorian or salutatorian. So that was my goal.
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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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