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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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Melinda Gates
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: August 15
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If you invest in a girl or a woman, you are investing in everybody else.
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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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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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Philanthropy is not about the money. It's about using whatever resources you have at your fingertips and applying them to improving the world.
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One life is worth no more or less than any other
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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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Make sure you continue to trust what you know now about yourself and stay true to what you believe in
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With economic opportunity, sometimes it's making sure that if they're not in a place where they can have good jobs, that when they have economic opportunity, they have digital tools to use.
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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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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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Human-centered design. Meeting people where they are and really taking their needs and feedback into account. When you let people participate in the design process, you find that they often have ingenious ideas about what would really help them. And it’s not a onetime thing it’s an iterative process.
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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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When we invest in women and girls, we are investing in the people who invest in everyone else.
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I care much more about saving the lives of mothers and babies than I do about a fancy museum somewhere.
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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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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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All of a sudden people in the United States start to realize that vaccines make a difference. The controversy and the myth that's there, we're always trying to bust through that. So when I see a disease outbreak, I say to myself, OK, that'll get people realizing how lucky we are to have vaccines.
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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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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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Everyone agrees that the failure of our high schools is tragic. It's bad business, and it's bad policy. But we act as if it can't be helped. It can be helped. We designed these high schools we can redesign them.
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