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.
Melinda GatesI think the Americans need to understand that a lot of times the children are bored in school, and that is why they are not staying in.
Melinda GatesMy background was computer science and business school, so eventually I worked my way up where I was running product groups - development, testing, marketing, user education.
Melinda GatesWomen are the centre of the family. It's the woman who decides what's eaten in the house, when to have the kids vaccinated; everything that has to do with the children's health revolves around her.
Melinda GatesEven 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.
Melinda Gates