We don't even know who's in the Academy.
The difference between rich and poor is becoming more extreme, and as income inequality widens the wealth gap in major nations, education, health and social mobility are all threatened.
You can't marginalize more than half of the globe's population and expect to see any meaningful solutions to the problems that ail the world.
No matter how you measure it, women and girls bear the brunt of poverty. But it's also clear that women are also our greatest hope for ending it. We at CARE have long believed that if you change the life of a girl or woman, you don't just change that individual, you change her family and then her community.
As many as half of Ethiopias girls become wives before becoming adults. But Ethiopia is also a place where lasting solutions to child marriage are starting to make a difference.
If you educate a girl, you educate a nation.
There is no doubt that a woman's economic empowerment is very much interconnected to her health and the well being of her children.
I always felt like I was right out of Dickens, looking in the window of the Christmas feast, but not at the feast.
I have nothing to say for myself, only that I have always tried to make this earth a little bit better
I can't save them by myself, oh but God forbid that I just turn my head and walk on by. Don't let me be a stranger to those less fortunate than I.
No matter how busy you are make time to eat at a table. A desk is not a table.