Poverty disproportionately affects women around the world.
MELINDA GATESMy 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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I felt suicidal. I couldn’t stop crying. I remember thinking, wouldn’t it be great if the car crashed and I died?
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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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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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You are indebted to life until you help some less fortunate person, just as you were helped.
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Connect deeply with others. Our humanity is the one thing that we all have in common.
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One life is worth no more or less than any other.
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Deep human connection is … the purpose and the result of a meaningful life – and it will inspire the most amazing acts of love, generosity, and humanity.
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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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You can’t save kids just with vaccines.
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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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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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What great changes have not been ambitious?
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Sometimes it’s the people you can’t help who inspire you the most.
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Our economies are built on the backs of all this unpaid labor that women do.
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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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When we invest in women and girls, we are investing in the people who invest in everyone else.
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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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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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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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If you invest in a girl or a woman, you are investing in everybody else.
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We look in our own backyard and say, ‘How do we help at-risk families, at risk youth? How do we think through some of the problems affecting the Pacific Northwest and make some change there?’
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Women around the world should have a tool that helps them plan their pregnancies.
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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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I care much more about saving the lives of mothers and babies than I do about a fancy museum somewhere.
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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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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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