“The day in 2004 when the radiologist told me I had invasive cancer, I walked down the hospital corridor looking for a phone to call my husband, and I could almost see the fear coming toward me like a big, black shadow.” BigsBlackHusbandShadowPhonesCancerMy HusbandHospitalsCorridors Author:Geraldine Brooks
“As Indian citizens, we subsist on a regular diet of caste massacres and nuclear tests, mosque breakings and fashion shows, church burnings and expanding cell phone networks, bonded labor and the digital revolution, female infanticide and the NASDAQ crash, husbands who continue to burn their wives for dowry and our delectable stockpile of Miss Worlds. What's hard to reconcile oneself to, both personally and politically, is the schizophrenic nature of it.” WorldHardShowsChurchWifeFashionMissingRevolutionCitizensHusbandFemaleLaborTestsPhonesOneselfNuclearCellsBurningIndianDietsDigitalCrashExpandingCell PhoneReconcileMosquesCastesMassacresSchizophrenicFashion ShowDowryInfanticideDigital RevolutionDelectable Book:Power Politics Source: Power Politics
“As a woman finds economic opportunity, even if she's only earning a couple of dollars a day, if she can save it on her phone, she then makes different decisions for her household than her husband might.” IfsDifferentMightOpportunityDecisionEconomicCoupleHusbandDollarsPhonesHouseholdEarning Author:Melinda Gates
“In the developing world, they don't have smartphones yet. They have the older plastic phones, but women are saving money on those, because they don't have access to banks. Having that access to digital money changes everything for her because she actually doesn't have to negotiate with her husband, which she will tell you is very hard in these circumstances, especially when the means are meager. She's expected to have money to pay for the kids' health or to help with the school fees.” WorldMeanHardHelpingKidsSchoolPayCircumstancesHusbandPhonesExpectedAccessSavingDevelopingDigitalPlasticSaving MoneyFeesSmartphones Author:Melinda Gates