If you can't travel to the developing world, look at helping to fund a woman with a small loan and follow her. Learn her story. Learn about the difference that you're making.
Now, as smartphones are coming up, there are all kinds of apps that will start to be developed that will help women.
Despite the debunking, you have a small group in the last five years that hasn't wanted to vaccinate their children, for instance, for measles. Then, all of sudden, we got an outbreak of measles and kids were starting to die from measles.
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 set out what's going to be our work time versus our foundation time versus family time, and we'll reassess that... sometimes every week.
We look in our own backyard and say, 'How do we help at-risk families, at risk youth? How do we think through some of the problems affecting the Pacific Northwest and make some change there?'
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.
Poverty disproportionately affects women around the world.
Our economies are built on the backs of all this unpaid labor that women do.
If you ask, who has the chance to move into the city and get a good job out in the developing world? It's a man. Who's left to care for the kids back at home? The woman is.
That's universal - we all want to bring every good thing to our children. But what's not universal is our ability to provide every good thing.
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.
I realized that the only way to get into a good college was to be valedictorian or salutatorian. So that was my goal.
The premise of this foundation is one life on this planet is no more valuable than the next.
The biggest killers of children around the world are two things: diarrhea and pneumonia. When you think about it, in the United States, kids don't die of diarrhea anymore, but it's a huge problem in the developing world.
Microsoft certainly makes products for the Macintosh.
But iPods and iPhones are two things we don't get for our kids.
Sanitation issues in the developing world affect women more than they affect men.
As a parent, the responsible thing to do - if you love your child - is to vaccinate your child.