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 GATESKids are falling through the cracks and nobody notices it. That to me is what’s wrong with the school system.
More Melinda Gates Quotes
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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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When we invest in women, we invest in a powerful source of global development.
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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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Women and girls face a whole host of issues. We start with health, so we work very deeply on maternal deaths, making sure that a mom doesn’t die in childbirth, making sure that she has access, for instance, to AIDS medication.
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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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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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Helping people doesn’t have to be an unsound financial strategy.
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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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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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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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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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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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Women around the world should have a tool that helps them plan their pregnancies.
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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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I learn in a different way. I learn experientially.
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