Now, as smartphones are coming up, there are all kinds of apps that will start to be developed that will help women.
MELINDA GATESIt is still just unbelievable to us that diarrhea is one of the leading causes of child deaths in the world.
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Our economies are built on the backs of all this unpaid labor that women do.
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That’s universal – we all want to bring every good thing to our children. But what’s not universal is our ability to provide every good thing.
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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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Government funding that’s coming from the United States is making a huge difference on the ground in the developing world. It’s really palpable – it’s making a huge difference saving lives.
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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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After a number of years dating, we decided we were good partners.
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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 care much more about saving the lives of mothers and babies than I do about a fancy museum somewhere.
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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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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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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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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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As a parent, the responsible thing to do – if you love your child – is to vaccinate your child.
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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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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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