One life is worth no more or less than any other

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.

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 much as 10 times more.

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.

Despite the debunking, you have a small group in the last five years that hasn't wanted to vaccinate their children, for instance, for measles. Then, all of sudden, we got an outbreak of measles and kids were starting to die from measles.

Even in our own agriculture strategy, if we got a great new drought-resistant seed and we managed to get it distributed in the system, we just assumed that it would reach female farmers. That's a false assumption, because women don't interact with agro-dealers. So if you don't develop specific programming to ensure that seed gets in a woman's hands, then the extra income [generated by higher-yielding crops] goes into her husband's hands.