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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.

Melinda Gates

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.
MELINDA GATES

Better Live Reality Solution Understand Woman
With economic opportunity, sometimes it’s making sure that if they’re not in a place where they can have good jobs, that when they have economic opportunity, they have digital tools to use.
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Digital Economics Opportunity Place Time Tools
It’s important to remember that behind every data point is a daughter, a mother, a sister—a person with hopes and dreams.
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Dreams Hope Important Person Point Remember
You are indebted to life until you help some less fortunate person, just as you were helped.
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Fortunate Help Life Person Yourself
When we invest in women, we invest in a powerful source of global development.
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Development Global Investment Powerful Woman Yourself
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
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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Born Business Career Daughter Division Myself Ran
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
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
One life is worth no more or less than any other.
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Life Value Worth
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
You can’t save kids just with vaccines.
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Children Medicine Save Vaccine Yourself
Women and girls face a whole host of issues. We start with health, so we work very deeply on maternal deaths, making sure that a mom doesn’t die in childbirth, making sure that she has access, for instance, to AIDS medication.
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Death Face Girl Health Issues Mother Start Woman
As a parent, the responsible thing to do – if you love your child – is to vaccinate your child.
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Children Love Parents Responsible Vaccinate Yourself
You can have the best vaccines for a woman or her child, but if you can’t get her to come and get them then they won’t work.
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Best Children Vaccine Woman Work Yourself
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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Fingers Improvement Information Money Resource World Yourself

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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