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.
MELINDA GATESIt’s important to remember that behind every data point is a daughter, a mother, a sister—a person with hopes and dreams.
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When we better understand the realities of these women’s lives, we are able to design and deliver solutions that are more useful to them.
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If we don’t empower women, we don’t allow them to unlock the potential of themselves and their children.
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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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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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If you can’t travel to the developing world, look at helping to fund a woman with a small loan and follow her. Learn her story. Learn about the difference that you’re making.
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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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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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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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I realized that the only way to get into a good college was to be valedictorian or salutatorian. So that was my goal.
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As a woman finds economic opportunity, even if she’s only earning a couple of dollars a day, if she can save it on her phone, she then makes different decisions for her household than her husband might.
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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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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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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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