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If you invest in a girl or a woman, you are investing in everybody else.

Melinda Gates

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Melinda Gates
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: August 15
Businessperson
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Dallas
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Melinda Ann French
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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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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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Like in Africa, if somebody doesn't have fuel, they're still going and collecting firewood. If they get an oven, that's a huge difference. You can do things to reduce the inequities by making sure that they can get clean energy, safe energy. To make sure they're not having to collect water every day. That's huge for women in the developing world.
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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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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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Women around the world should have a tool that helps them plan their pregnancies.
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We also ought to recognize that unpaid labor falls predominantly to women. The other thing I would do in countries like the U.S. is to show more men, even in TV ads, doing household work. Only two percent of ads show men doing chores, and yet we know they actually do several hours of it in real life. Those images affect young boys and girls.
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We set out what's going to be our work time versus our foundation time versus family time, and we'll reassess that... sometimes every week.
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Government funding that's coming from the United States is making a huge difference on the ground in the developing world. It's really palpable - it's making a huge difference saving lives.
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Think, for a moment, about our educational ladder. We've strengthened the steps lifting students from elementary school to junior high, and those from junior high to high school. But, that critical step taking students from high school into adulthood is badly broken. And it can no longer support the weight it must bear.
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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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You are indebted to life until you help some less fortunate person, just as you were helped.
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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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Vaccines are a miracle cure. Eight out of 10 children are getting vaccines.
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If you can't go to secondary school, the boys get to go and the girls don't, you're locked into a cycle of poverty, because you don't have a chance.
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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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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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Make sure you continue to trust what you know now about yourself and stay true to what you believe in
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We look in our own backyard and say, 'How do we help at-risk families, at risk youth? How do we think through some of the problems affecting the Pacific Northwest and make some change there?'
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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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