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.
MELINDA GATESIf you want to lift up an economy in Africa, you basically start with the women.
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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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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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Philanthropy is not about the money. It’s about using whatever resources you have at your fingertips and applying them to improving the world.
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The biggest pieces of work that we do are vaccines, because those save lives, and also family planning. Because if a woman can space the births of her children, it changes everything for her health and her child’s health.
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Women around the world should have a tool that helps them plan their pregnancies.
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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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Our economies are built on the backs of all this unpaid labor that women do.
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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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Around the world we have girls in primary school at about the same rate now as boys, but keeping them in quality secondary schools is where the world is lagging. I’m seeing a lot of countries look at this now.
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Kids are falling through the cracks and nobody notices it. That to me is what’s wrong with the school system.
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We set out what’s going to be our work time versus our foundation time versus family time, and we’ll reassess that… sometimes every week.
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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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If you want to lift up an economy in Africa, you basically start with the women.
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After a number of years dating, we decided we were good partners.
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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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When we invest in women and girls, we are investing in the people who invest in everyone else.
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Poverty disproportionately affects women around the world.
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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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Make sure you continue to trust what you know now about yourself and stay true to what you believe in.
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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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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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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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Connect deeply with others. Our humanity is the one thing that we all have in common.
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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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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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Vaccines are a miracle cure. Eight out of 10 children are getting vaccines.
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