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.

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.

In places like India with smartphones, there's an app now for women if they're in a violent situation, they can press one button. They've given their cell-phone number to five trusted friends, and right away their GPS location goes out: "Here I am."

I learn in a different way. I learn experientially.

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.

Now we just really need to do the work, which we're doing, to get contraceptives out to women worldwide.

Our desire to bring every good thing to our children is a force for good throughout the world. It’s what propels societies forward.