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.
MELINDA GATESVaccines are a miracle cure. Eight out of 10 children are getting vaccines.
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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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Now, as smartphones are coming up, there are all kinds of apps that will start to be developed that will help women.
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After a number of years dating, we decided we were good partners.
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Sometimes it’s the people you can’t help who inspire you the most.
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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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Deep human connection is … the purpose and the result of a meaningful life – and it will inspire the most amazing acts of love, generosity, and humanity.
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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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What great changes have not been ambitious?
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Women around the world should have a tool that helps them plan their pregnancies.
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We have to be careful in how we use this light shined on us.
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We [with Bill Gates] started to make decisions about what we’d invest in. Then I actually started traveling for the foundation. I’ve probably been to India now eight times at least and Africa numerous times.
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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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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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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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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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