Melinda French Gates
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She can stay in her career.
She can...
get a second, you know, education if she wants.
She can launch the kids the way she wants.
So we need to make sure that this is not, you know, menopause is inevitable, but let's make sure that the care that she gets is also of the highest quality.
Or perhaps we just go ahead and measure their estrogen starting at a certain age.
Wow.
How novel would that be?
Maybe pay attention.
I think about what has changed things, for instance, in breast cancer for women, right?
It was the Susan G. Komen Foundation started in the 1980s because Susan had passed away at 36 of breast cancer.
Her sister, Nancy, set up this foundation.
Now we all know how to screen ourselves and that we should screen ourselves once a month.
We go in for our mammograms.
We know where to go if you want to run a race or be part of raising money for breast cancer.
She put it on the agenda.
So we need to be saying this now, guess what?
It's on our agenda.
Well, and that's why we need, you're doing such great advocacy as are other women and making sure that women get credible information.
We have to do advocacy.