It’s important to remember that behind every data point is a daughter, a mother, a sister—a person with hopes and dreams.
MELINDA GATESWhen we invest in women and girls, we are investing in the people who invest in everyone else.
More Melinda Gates Quotes
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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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All women, everywhere, have the same hopes: we want to be self-sufficient and create better lives for ourselves and our loved ones.
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As a woman finds economic opportunity, even if she’s only earning a couple of dollars a day, if she can save it on her phone, she then makes different decisions for her household than her husband might.
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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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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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If we don’t empower women, we don’t allow them to unlock the potential of themselves and their children.
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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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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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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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Women and girls should be able to determine their own future, no matter where they’re born.
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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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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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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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The premise of this foundation is one life on this planet is no more valuable than the next.
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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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