Poverty disproportionately affects women around the world.
MELINDA GATESHousework comes first, so girls often fall behind in school. Global statistics show that it’s increasingly girls, not boys, who don’t know how to read.
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After a number of years dating, we decided we were good partners.
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Vaccines are a miracle cure. Eight out of 10 children are getting vaccines.
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I care much more about saving the lives of mothers and babies than I do about a fancy museum somewhere.
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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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When we invest in women, we invest in a powerful source of global development.
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If you can’t travel to the developing world, look at helping to fund a woman with a small loan and follow her. Learn her story. Learn about the difference that you’re making.
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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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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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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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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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A woman with a voice is by definition a strong woman. But the search to find that voice can be remarkably difficult.
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All lives have an equal value.
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I felt suicidal. I couldn’t stop crying. I remember thinking, wouldn’t it be great if the car crashed and I died?
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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 I really believe all lives have equal value, and if I use contraceptives, which I do, and if I’m counselling my son and my two daughters to use them, how am I not serving the women who don’t have access to the contraceptives they need?
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