Poverty disproportionately affects women around the world.
MELINDA GATESEveryone 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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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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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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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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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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When we invest in women, we invest in a powerful source of global development.
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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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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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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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Bill and I both firmly believe that even the most difficult global health problems can be solved.
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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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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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After a number of years dating, we decided we were good partners.
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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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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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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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