All lives have an equal value.

If I really believe all lives have equal value, and if I use contraceptives, which I do, and if I'm counselling my son and my two daughters to use them, how am I not serving the women who don't have access to the contraceptives they need?

Poverty disproportionately affects women around the world.

Philanthropy is not about the money. It's about using whatever resources you have at your fingertips and applying them to improving the world.

If you can't travel to the developing world, look at helping to fund a woman with a small loan and follow her. Learn her story. Learn about the difference that you're making.

If you ask, who has the chance to move into the city and get a good job out in the developing world? It's a man. Who's left to care for the kids back at home? The woman is.

Helping people doesn't have to be an unsound financial strategy.