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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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.
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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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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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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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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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I learn in a different way. I learn experientially.
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If you want to lift up an economy in Africa, you basically start with the women.
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If you invest in a girl or a woman, you are investing in everybody else.
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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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Poverty disproportionately affects women around the world.
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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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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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Kids are falling through the cracks and nobody notices it. That to me is what’s wrong with the school system.
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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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The premise of this foundation is one life on this planet is no more valuable than the next.
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