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        <title><![CDATA[Melinda French Gates - Former Co-Chair/Co-Founder]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[Melinda French Gates is co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, founder of Pivotal Ventures and author of "The Moment of Lift: How Empowering Women Changes the World."]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Women Entrepreneurs Can Make the World $6 Trillion Richer]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[The financial industry needs to redesign its lending practices to give more consideration to small borrowers, especially women.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 15 Apr 2024 11:00:07 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>Women members of an agricultural cocoa cooperative put cocoa beans to dry on April 17, 2019 in a farm near Adzope, southern Ivory Coast. - US president&apos;s daughter, who attended a Women Entrepreneurs Finance Initiative (We-Fi) West Africa Regional Summit, unveiled on April 17 $2.0 million in aid for women working in Ivory Coast&apos;s key cocoa sector. (Photo by ISSOUF SANOGO / AFP) (Photo credit should read ISSOUF SANOGO/AFP via Getty Images)</media:description>
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            <title><![CDATA[After the Pandemic, Put Women First]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[From education to entrepreneurship, global recovery efforts need to pay particular attention to the needs of women and girls. ]]></description>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Melinda French Gates]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Thu, 18 Feb 2021 11:30:06 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>School children wearing face masks gather outside their classroom at a primary school in Attecoube, popular district of Abidjan on May 25, 2020 on the first day after resumption of classes after the COVID-19 coronavirus lockdown. (Photo by Issouf SANOGO / AFP) (Photo by ISSOUF SANOGO/AFP via Getty Images)</media:description>
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