Our economies are built on the backs of all this unpaid labor that women do. — Melinda Gates Copy Share Image
Sanitation issues in the developing world affect women more than they affect men. — Melinda Gates Copy Share Image
If you invest in a girl or a woman, you are investing in everybody else. — Melinda Gates Copy Share Image
If we don't empower women, we don't allow them to unlock the potential of themselves and their children. — Melinda Gates Copy Share Image
When we invest in women and girls, we are investing in the people who invest in everyone else. — Melinda Gates Copy Share Image
Women speaking up for themselves and for those around them is the strongest force we have to change the world. — Melinda Gates Copy Share Image
If you want to lift up an economy in Africa, you basically start with the women. — Melinda Gates Copy Share Image
Now we just really need to do the work, which we're doing, to get contraceptives out to women worldwide. — Melinda Gates Copy Share Image
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… — Melinda Gates Copy Share Image
Take time to learn about the lives of women around the world-and try to play a small part in their fight to… — Melinda Gates Copy Share Image
Around the world we have girls in primary school at about the same rate now as boys, but keeping them in quality… — Melinda Gates Copy Share Image
Men make different investments than women do. Women tend to invest more of their earnings than men do in their family's well-being… — Melinda Gates Copy Share Image
All women, everywhere, have the same hopes: we want to be self-sufficient and create better lives for ourselves and our loved ones. — Melinda Gates Copy Share Image
When we better understand the realities of these women's lives, we are able to design and deliver solutions that are more useful… — Melinda Gates Copy Share Image
Now, as smartphones are coming up, there are all kinds of apps that will start to be developed that will help women. — Melinda Gates Copy Share Image
We have to look at it country by country. In places like the developing world where, as you say, in Mumbai, it's… — Melinda Gates Copy Share Image
Even in decision-making, we work in self-help groups. That is women coming together in small groups of 10 to sometimes 15 women,… — Melinda Gates Copy Share Image
Even in our own agriculture strategy, if we got a great new drought-resistant seed and we managed to get it distributed in… — Melinda Gates Copy Share Image
Contraceptives unlock one of the most dormant, but potentially powerful assets in development: women as decision-makers. When women have the power to… — Melinda Gates Copy Share Image
We also ought to recognize that unpaid labor falls predominantly to women. The other thing I would do in countries like the… — Melinda Gates Copy Share Image
Today is International Women's Day, and there's a fantastic set of pieces running by an organization called ONE called "Poverty Is Sexist."… — Melinda Gates Copy Share Image
When I studied computer science at Duke University in the first half of the 1980s, I had professors who treated women differently… — Melinda Gates Copy Share Image
When we invest in women, we invest in a powerful source of global development — Melinda Gates Copy Share Image
Women and girls should be able to determine their own future, no matter where they're born. — Melinda Gates Copy Share Image
I've travelled extensively in the last 16 years - to slums in Bangladesh, to townships in South Africa, to all kinds of places in… — Melinda Gates Copy Share
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… — Melinda Gates Copy Share
A woman with a voice is by definition a strong woman. But the search to find that voice can be remarkably difficult. — Melinda Gates Copy Share
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… — Melinda Gates Copy Share
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… — Melinda Gates Copy Share
Contraceptives unlock one of the most dormant, but potentially powerful assets in development: women as decision-makers. When women have the power to make choices… — Melinda Gates Copy Share
When girls are educated and free to pursue their passions, they contribute more to a thriving society. When women have a voice, they raise… — Melinda Gates Copy Share
You are indebted to life until you help some less fortunate person, just as you were helped. — Melinda Gates Copy Share
Philanthropy is not about the money. It's about using whatever resources you have at your fingertips and applying them to improving the world. — Melinda Gates Copy Share
In different places you run into myths around vaccination or around family planning. In the United States, one of the myths that existed for… — Melinda Gates Copy Share
“Anyone can be made to feel like an outsider. It’s up to the people who have the power to exclude. Often it’s on the… — Melinda Gates Copy Share
Having children made us look differently at all these things that we take for granted, like taking your child to get a vaccine against… — Melinda Gates Copy Share
Now we just really need to do the work, which we're doing, to get contraceptives out to women worldwide. — Melinda Gates Copy Share
