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.
MELINDA GATESSometimes it’s the people you can’t help who inspire you the most.
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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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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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Women around the world should have a tool that helps them plan their pregnancies.
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Our economies are built on the backs of all this unpaid labor that women do.
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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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You are indebted to life until you help some less fortunate person, just as you were helped.
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If you are successful, it is because somewhere, sometime, someone gave you a life or an idea that started you in the right direction. Remember also that you are indebted to life until you help some less fortunate person, just as you were helped.
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Helping people doesn’t have to be an unsound financial strategy.
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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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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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All women, everywhere, have the same hopes: we want to be self-sufficient and create better lives for ourselves and our loved ones.
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I learn in a different way. I learn experientially.
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Sometimes it’s the people you can’t help who inspire you the most.
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The biggest killers of children around the world are two things: diarrhea and pneumonia. When you think about it, in the United States, kids don’t die of diarrhea anymore, but it’s a huge problem in the developing world.
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