The Guardian, February 5, 2017: Gates: Success for me is seeing more people lifted out of poverty in Africa
“Because at the end of the day, women move the society up. They give birth to the children, and they have the ability to move their families out of poverty. We know that if a woman is empowered, if a woman goes to school and gets educated through high school, her daughter is twice as likely to be educated. For instance, if a woman spaces her children by three years, her next child is twice as likely to make it to his or her first birthday. She makes a lot of decisions in her household concerning who eats what, what the child’s health is, and yet there are so many societies, where women aren’t yet empowered.”