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Melinda Ann French

Businesswoman, Philanthropist

(1964 - )

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Melinda Gates

Businesswoman, Philanthropist

I am inspired by the women I meet everywhere I go. They have to work so hard just to make sure their families survive, but somehow they stay optimistic and do everything in their power to make the future better than the past.
Inspiration - Optimism
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Melinda Gates

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Women speaking up for themselves and for those around them is the strongest force we have to change the world.
Strength
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Melinda Gates

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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.
Effectiveness - Empowerment - Progression - Wants
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Melinda Gates

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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.
Playing - Trial
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Melinda Gates

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We talk a lot in our home together about where we're going, what I'm doing.
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Melinda Gates

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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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Melinda Gates

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Abortion has become a very politicised issue that I think countries have to work out themselves. In a lot of countries, people can't even yet agree on what their laws should be.
Agreeing - Countries - Workout
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Melinda Gates

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When I studied computer science at Duke University in the first half of the 1980s, I had professors who treated women differently than men. I kind of got used to it. At Microsoft, I had to use my elbows and make sure I spoke up at the table, but it was an incredibly meritocratic place. Outside, in the industry, I would feel the sexism. I'd walk into a room and until I proved my worth, everyone would assume that the guy presenting with me had credibility and I didn't.
Feelings - Kindness - Man - Present - Professor
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Melinda Gates

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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.
Countries - Development - Man - Recognition - Talk - Trial
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Melinda Gates

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When we invest in women, we invest in a powerful source of global development
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Melinda Gates

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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.
Ability - Mother - Programming
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Melinda Gates

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I think it's very important that we instill in our kids that it has nothing to do with their name or their situation that they're growing up in; it has to do with who they are as an individual.
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Melinda Gates

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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.
Children - Making - Taking - Vaccines
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Melinda Gates

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In places like India with smartphones, there's an app now for women if they're in a violent situation, they can press one button. They've given their cell-phone number to five trusted friends, and right away their GPS location goes out: "Here I am."
Giving - Phone - Pressure - Violence
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Melinda Gates

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Sometimes it's the people you can't help who inspire you the most.
Help - Inspiration
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Melinda Gates

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You can't save kids just with vaccines.
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Melinda Gates

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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.
Help - Kindness
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Melinda Gates

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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.
Economy - Realization
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Melinda Gates

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In the developing world, they don't have smartphones yet. They have the older plastic phones, but women are saving money on those, because they don't have access to banks. Having that access to digital money changes everything for her because she actually doesn't have to negotiate with her husband, which she will tell you is very hard in these circumstances, especially when the means are meager. She's expected to have money to pay for the kids' health or to help with the school fees.
Development - Expectation - Help - Meaning - Payment - Phone
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Melinda Gates

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I'm constantly saying to myself, 'I'm lucky I was born in the United States.
Luck - State - Unions
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Melinda Gates

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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.
Education - Market - Work
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Melinda Gates

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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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Melinda Gates

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As a woman finds economic opportunity, even if she's only earning a couple of dollars a day, if she can save it on her phone, she then makes different decisions for her household than her husband might.
Decision - Difference - Earning - Opportunity
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Melinda Gates

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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.
Health - Help - Kindness - Oneself - Right
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Melinda Gates

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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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Melinda Gates

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But we also believe in taking risks, because that's how you move things along.
Belief - Movement - Risk
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Melinda Gates

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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.
Boys - Education - Girls - Quality
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Melinda Gates

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Any social or cultural change has to be made openly and with people agreeing. You don't get there by just pushing an outsider's point of view.
Making
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Melinda Gates

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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.
Boy - Chore - Countries - Fall - Man - Show - TV
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Melinda Gates

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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.
Improvement
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Melinda Gates

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Make sure you continue to trust what you know now about yourself and stay true to what you believe in
Belief
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Melinda Gates

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There are absolutely lots of teachers who are trying to come into the profession, but they are not attracted enough to say, 'I'm going to switch careers to do it,' or they are often not retained... because the salaries and the compensation aren't there to make it happen.
Attraction - Making - Professionals - Teaching - Trial
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