Abortion has become a very politicised issue that I think countries have to work out themselves. In a lot of countries, people can’t even yet agree on what their laws should be.
MELINDA GATESWomen around the world should have a tool that helps them plan their pregnancies.
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Everyone agrees that the failure of our high schools is tragic. It’s bad business, and it’s bad policy. But we act as if it can’t be helped. It can be helped. We designed these high schools; we can redesign them.
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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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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.
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You can’t save kids just with vaccines.
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If you don’t have an effective teacher in front of the classroom, you won’t change the trajectory for students.
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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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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 you want to lift up an economy in Africa, you basically start with the women.
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Housework 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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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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Women around the world should have a tool that helps them plan their pregnancies.
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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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Vaccines are a miracle cure. Eight out of 10 children are getting vaccines.
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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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As a parent, the responsible thing to do – if you love your child – is to vaccinate your child.
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