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.
MELINDA GATESOur economies are built on the backs of all this unpaid labor that women do.
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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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I care much more about saving the lives of mothers and babies than I do about a fancy museum somewhere.
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After a number of years dating, we decided we were good partners.
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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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What great changes have not been ambitious?
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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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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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Women and girls should be able to determine their own future, no matter where they’re born.
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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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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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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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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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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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Vaccines are a miracle cure. Eight out of 10 children are getting vaccines.
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