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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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Dallas
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Melinda Ann French
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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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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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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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I learn in a different way. I learn experientially.
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I felt suicidal. I couldn't stop crying. I remember thinking, wouldn't it be great if the car crashed and I died?
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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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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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If we don't empower women, we don't allow them to unlock the potential of themselves and their children.
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It's really one of my all-time favorite things to do. To go out and really see the kids and visit the moms who are in these programs because I think I really get to see what happens on the ground and connect with them about what changes are that happen in their lives because of some of the giving that we're able to do.
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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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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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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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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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In the United States, there's definitely some controversy about birth control in general, and I think we needed to split the debate and have people realize that we actually agree as a country about contraceptives. Over 93 percent of American women say they use contraceptives, and they feel very good about it.
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You can't save kids just with vaccines.
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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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[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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If you don't have an effective teacher in front of the classroom, you won't change the trajectory for students.
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