A woman with a voice is by definition a strong woman. But the search to find that voice can be remarkably difficult.
MELINDA GATESThe premise of this foundation is one life on this planet is no more valuable than the next.
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As a woman finds economic opportunity, even if she’s only earning a couple of dollars a day, if she can save it on her phone, she then makes different decisions for her household than her husband might.
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Women are the centre of the family. It’s the woman who decides what’s eaten in the house, when to have the kids vaccinated; everything that has to do with the children’s health revolves around her.
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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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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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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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Women and girls should be able to determine their own future, no matter where they’re born.
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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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Women around the world should have a tool that helps them plan their pregnancies.
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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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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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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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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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I care much more about saving the lives of mothers and babies than I do about a fancy museum somewhere.
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Women speaking up for themselves and for those around them is the strongest force we have to change the world.
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