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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More Melinda Gates Quotes
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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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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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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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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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Our economies are built on the backs of all this unpaid labor that women do.
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All women, everywhere, have the same hopes: we want to be self-sufficient and create better lives for ourselves and our loved ones.
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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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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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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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Poverty disproportionately affects women around the world.
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If we don’t empower women, we don’t allow them to unlock the potential of themselves and their children.
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Having children made us look differently at all these things that we take for granted, like taking your child to get a vaccine against measles or polio.
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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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I think it’s very important that we instill in our kids that it has nothing to do with their name or their situation that they’re growing up in; it has to do with who they are as an individual.
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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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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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As a parent, the responsible thing to do – if you love your child – is to vaccinate your child.
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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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Now we just really need to do the work, which we’re doing, to get contraceptives out to women worldwide.
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We have to be careful in how we use this light shined on us.
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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.
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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.
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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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