I'm constantly saying to myself, 'I'm lucky I was born in the United States.

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.

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.

We started our foundation because we believe we have a real opportunity to help advance equity around the world, to help make sure that, no matter where a person is born, he or she has the chance to live a healthy, productive life.

You can have the best vaccines for a woman or her child, but if you can't get her to come and get them then they won't work.

Our economies are built on the backs of all this unpaid labor that women do.

The biggest killers of children around the world are two things: diarrhea and pneumonia. When you think about it, in the United States, kids don't die of diarrhea anymore, but it's a huge problem in the developing world.