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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.

Melinda Gates

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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Children Growth Important Myself Name Situation Thinking
Connect deeply with others. Our humanity is the one thing that we all have in common.
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Connection Deep Humanity Oneself
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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Children Different Sick Vaccine
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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Abortion Country Issues Law People Politics
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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Development Difference Help Learning Story Travel Woman World Yourself
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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Care Chance City Development Goodness Home Job Man Move Woman Yourself
I realized that the only way to get into a good college was to be valedictorian or salutatorian. So that was my goal.
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College Goal Goodness
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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Decision Different Economics Herself Husband Money Phone Save Woman
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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Decision Foundation Investment Myself Start Time Travel
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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You can’t save kids just with vaccines.
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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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Government funding that’s coming from the United States is making a huge difference on the ground in the developing world. It’s really palpable – it’s making a huge difference saving lives.
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Development Difference Government Life Save
Everyone agrees that the failure of our high schools is tragic. It’s bad business, and it’s bad policy. But we act as if it can’t be helped. It can be helped. We designed these high schools; we can redesign them.
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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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Family Foundation Ourselves Time Work
If we don’t empower women, we don’t allow them to unlock the potential of themselves and their children.
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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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