Now We Just Really Need To Do

Having Children Made Us Look Differently At All These Things That We Take For Granted, Like Taking Your Child To Get A Vaccine Against Measles Or Polio.

When I Look At 225 Million Women Who Want Contraceptives, And Then I Look At The 52 Million Unintended Pregnancies That Could Be Avoided By Addressing This Unmet Need, Where Can We Have The Biggest Impact With Our Voice, Our Dollars, Our Partners? It's On Contraceptives. I Would Rather Address The Problem Upstream.

The Biggest Pieces Of Work That We Do Are Vaccines, Because Those Save Lives, And Also Family Planning. Because If A Woman Can Space The Births Of Her Children, It Changes Everything For Her Health And Her Child's Health.

Even 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.

If We Don't Empower Women, We Don't Allow Them To Unlock The Potential Of Themselves And Their Children.