When we invest in women, we invest in a powerful source of global development.
MELINDA GATESMy 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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I realized that the only way to get into a good college was to be valedictorian or salutatorian. So that was my goal.
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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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Women and girls should be able to determine their own future, no matter where they’re born.
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What great changes have not been ambitious?
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It’s important to remember that behind every data point is a daughter, a mother, a sister—a person with hopes and dreams.
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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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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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You can’t save kids just with vaccines.
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If you invest in a girl or a woman, you are investing in everybody else.
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It is still just unbelievable to us that diarrhea is one of the leading causes of child deaths in the world.
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Helping people doesn’t have to be an unsound financial strategy.
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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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If you want to lift up an economy in Africa, you basically start with the women.
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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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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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