Women around the world should have a tool that helps them plan their pregnancies.
MELINDA GATESAs a parent, the responsible thing to do – if you love your child – is to vaccinate your child.
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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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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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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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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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You are indebted to life until you help some less fortunate person, just as you were helped.
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Sometimes it’s the people you can’t help who inspire you the most.
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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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A woman with a voice is by definition a strong woman. But the search to find that voice can be remarkably difficult.
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Having children made us look differently at all these things that we take for granted, like taking your child to get a vaccine against measles or polio.
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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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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 and girls should be able to determine their own future, no matter where they’re born.
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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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Connect deeply with others. Our humanity is the one thing that we all have in common.
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If you invest in a girl or a woman, you are investing in everybody else.
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