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.
MELINDA GATESThe premise of this foundation is one life on this planet is no more valuable than the next.
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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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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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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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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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Now we just really need to do the work, which we’re doing, to get contraceptives out to women worldwide.
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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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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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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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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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Our desire to bring every good thing to our children is a force for good throughout the world. It’s what propels societies forward.
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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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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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Sometimes it’s the people you can’t help who inspire you the most.
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