Melinda Gates Quotes About Decisions

Quotes about: Decisions

• 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 about their families, they tend to decide precisely what demographers, economists, and development experts recommend. They invest in the long-term human capital of their families.

  Melinda Gates

  Powerful, Long, Choices

  "Why Birth Control Is Still a Big Idea". foreignpolicy.com. November 26, 2012.

• We [with Bill Gates] started to make decisions about what we'd invest in. Then I actually started traveling for the foundation. I've probably been to India now eight times at least and Africa numerous times.

  Melinda Gates

  Eight, Decision, Foundation

  Source: www.yahoo.com

• 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.

  Melinda Gates

  Couple, Husband, Opportunity

  Interview with Jessica Grose, www.lennyletter.com. April 1, 2016.

• 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.

  Melinda Gates

  Rights, Self, Water

  Interview with Jessica Grose, www.lennyletter.com. April 1, 2016.

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