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.
MELINDA GATESIt’s important to remember that behind every data point is a daughter, a mother, a sister—a person with hopes and dreams.
More Melinda Gates Quotes
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When we invest in women and girls, we are investing in the people who invest in everyone else.
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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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The premise of this foundation is one life on this planet is no more valuable than the next.
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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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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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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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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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I think the Americans need to understand that a lot of times the children are bored in school, and that is why they are not staying in.
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It is still just unbelievable to us that diarrhea is one of the leading causes of child deaths in the world.
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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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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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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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As a parent, the responsible thing to do – if you love your child – is to vaccinate your child.
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If you want to lift up an economy in Africa, you basically start with the women.
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