Our desire to bring every good thing to our children is a force for good throughout the world. It’s what propels societies forward.
MELINDA GATESIf we don’t empower women, we don’t allow them to unlock the potential of themselves and their children.
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Connect deeply with others. Our humanity is the one thing that we all have in common.
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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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Poverty disproportionately affects women around the world.
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What great changes have not been ambitious?
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Men make different investments than women do. Women tend to invest more of their earnings than men do in their family’s well-being – as much as 10 times more.
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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 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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Make sure you continue to trust what you know now about yourself and stay true to what you believe in.
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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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All lives have an equal value.
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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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After a number of years dating, we decided we were good partners.
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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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The premise of this foundation is one life on this planet is no more valuable than the next.
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Around the world we have girls in primary school at about the same rate now as boys, but keeping them in quality secondary schools is where the world is lagging. I’m seeing a lot of countries look at this now.
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