Helping people doesn’t have to be an unsound financial strategy.
MELINDA GATESNow, 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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Women and girls should be able to determine their own future, no matter where they’re born.
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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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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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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 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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Our economies are built on the backs of all this unpaid labor that women do.
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When we invest in women, we invest in a powerful source of global development.
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If you don’t have an effective teacher in front of the classroom, you won’t change the trajectory for students.
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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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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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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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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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What great changes have not been ambitious?
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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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Vaccines are a miracle cure. Eight out of 10 children are getting vaccines.
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