Poverty disproportionately affects women around the world.

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

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.

Today is International Women's Day, and there's a fantastic set of pieces running by an organization called ONE called "Poverty Is Sexist." It's a great way to quickly learn about what's actually going on for women in poverty around the world, and then do something about it.

Women speaking up for themselves and for those around them is the strongest force we have to change the world.

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.

A woman with a voice is by definition a strong woman. But the search to find that voice can be remarkably difficult.