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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.

Melinda Gates

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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Poverty disproportionately affects women around the world.
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Affect Poverty Woman World
You can’t save kids just with vaccines.
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Children Medicine Save Vaccine Yourself
If I really believe all lives have equal value, and if I use contraceptives, which I do, and if I’m counselling my son and my two daughters to use them, how am I not serving the women who don’t have access to the contraceptives they need?
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Believe Equality Myself Need Service Value Woman
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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Difficult Remark Search Strength Strong Voice Woman
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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All lives have an equal value.
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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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Different Family Investment Man Time Woman
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.
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Helping people doesn’t have to be an unsound financial strategy.
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Financial Help People Strategy
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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If you want to lift up an economy in Africa, you basically start with the women.
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Economy Start Woman Yourself
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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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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As a parent, the responsible thing to do – if you love your child – is to vaccinate your child.
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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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Children Desire Force Goodness Ourselves Society World

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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