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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.
Melinda Gates
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Melinda Gates
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: August 15
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Dallas
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Melinda Ann French
Melinda French Gates
Melinda Ann Gates
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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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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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Even in decision-making, we work in self-help groups. That is women coming together in small groups of 10 to sometimes 15 women, where they start to get education about their rights, about clean water and sanitation, about how to have a healthy birth. You can bring in all kinds of education to them that way.
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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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We have to look at it country by country. In places like the developing world where, as you say, in Mumbai, it's about five hours' gap between what a woman does and a man does. You have to start by recognizing the problem and talking about it, trying to change those roles.
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If you don't invest in the woman, empower her, give her the things she needs to lift her family up, you're just not going to make the progress that you want to make. But if you put her at the centre, you can change a lot for that family, and it has ripple effects through the economy.
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In the developing world, it's about time that women are on the agenda. For instance, 80 percent of small-subsistence farmers in sub-Saharan Africa are women, and yet all the programs in the past were predominantly focused on men.
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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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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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You are indebted to life until you help some less fortunate person, just as you were helped.
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[Bill Gates] wanted me to stay working at Microsoft, but I didn't think he could be CEO and we could have the family life that we both had growing up, which is what we envisioned. I knew I would go back to work at some point later to some profession. I just didn't know what.
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Bill [Gates] and I believe philanthropy can only be effective if it starts things and proves whether they actually work or not. That's the place that governments often don't want to, or can't, work.
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When girls are educated and free to pursue their passions, they contribute more to a thriving society. When women have a voice, they raise it to demand a life that is greater than what they've been told they have a right to expect. And these demands change the future for everyone.
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