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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

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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What great changes have not been ambitious?
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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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Bill and I both firmly believe that even the most difficult global health problems can be solved.
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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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Economics Population Science Time Woman Work
In different places you run into myths around vaccination or around family planning. In the United States, one of the myths that existed for a long time, that has been completely debunked, was that autism was linked to a vaccine.
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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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You are indebted to life until you help some less fortunate person, just as you were helped.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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As a parent, the responsible thing to do – if you love your child – is to vaccinate your child.
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You can’t save kids just with vaccines.
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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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When we invest in women, we invest in a powerful source of global development.
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The 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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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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When we invest in women and girls, we are investing in the people who invest in everyone else.
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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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Housework comes first, so girls often fall behind in school. Global statistics show that it’s increasingly girls, not boys, who don’t know how to read.
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Women around the world should have a tool that helps them plan their pregnancies.
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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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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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