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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.

Melinda Gates

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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Now we just really need to do the work, which we’re doing, to get contraceptives out to women worldwide.
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What great changes have not been ambitious?
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Government funding that’s coming from the United States is making a huge difference on the ground in the developing world. It’s really palpable – it’s making a huge difference saving lives.
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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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One life is worth no more or less than any other.
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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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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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Our economies are built on the backs of all this unpaid labor that women do.
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Build Economy Ourselves Woman
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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