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
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
We would be driving down the street in a place like Zaire, now the Democratic Republic of Congo, and started to see,… — 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
We also look at farming. Are we making sure that we're getting the latest seeds out to women so they can get… — 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
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
Sanitation issues in the developing world affect women more than they affect men. — Melinda Gates Copy Share Image
If you ask, who has the chance to move into the city and get a good job out in the developing world?… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 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 - as… — 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 make choices… — Melinda Gates Copy Share Image
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 Image
You are indebted to life until you help some less fortunate person, just as you were helped. — Melinda Gates Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
