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

My undergraduate work was in computer science and economics. It just happened to be at that time when 34 percent of computer-science majors were women. We didn't realize it was at the peak at the time.

Connect deeply with others. Our humanity is the one thing that we all have in common.

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

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.

Women around the world should have a tool that helps them plan their pregnancies.

Everyone agrees that the failure of our high schools is tragic. It's bad business, and it's bad policy. But we act as if it can't be helped. It can be helped. We designed these high schools; we can redesign them.