When we better understand the realities of these women's lives, we are able to design and deliver solutions that are more useful to them.

In different places you run into myths around vaccination or around family planning. In the United States, one of the myths that existed for a long time, that has been completely debunked, was that autism was linked to a vaccine.

We also ought to recognize that unpaid labor falls predominantly to women. The other thing I would do in countries like the U.S. is to show more men, even in TV ads, doing household work. Only two percent of ads show men doing chores, and yet we know they actually do several hours of it in real life. Those images affect young boys and girls.

The premise of this foundation is one life on this planet is no more valuable than the next.

Now, as smartphones are coming up, there are all kinds of apps that will start to be developed that will help women.

My 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.

Sanitation issues in the developing world affect women more than they affect men.