{"id":15919,"date":"2015-08-05T04:46:27","date_gmt":"2015-08-05T11:46:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=15919"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:25:45","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:25:45","slug":"if-every-woman-has-a-smartphone-imagine-all-the-empowered-people-by-melinda-gates-the-economist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/08\/if-every-woman-has-a-smartphone-imagine-all-the-empowered-people-by-melinda-gates-the-economist","title":{"rendered":"If every woman has a smartphone imagine all the empowered people \u2014 By Melinda Gates | The Economist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\\'blog-photo\\' href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/d6da9223d89d@1x-1024x576.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u201cWho is Sabita?\u201d I was looking right at Sabita Devi when she said these words. She was describing her life as a wife and mother in Jharkhand, one of the poorest states in India, where she has spent most of her days inside the four walls of her home. \u201cNo one in my village knew my name,\u201d Sabita told me. Her contact with the outside world was mediated entirely by her husband: who she could talk to, what she could buy, when (and if) she could see a doctor. She was isolated from everyone and everything but her children.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/worldif.economist.com\/article\/14\/what-if-every-woman-has-a-smartphone-imagine-all-the-empowered-people#b08g04t20w15\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201c\u201cWho is Sabita?\u201d I was looking right at Sabita Devi when she said these words. She was describing her life as a wife and mother in Jharkhand, one of the poorest states in India, where she has spent most of her days inside the four walls of her home. \u201cNo one in my village knew [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":153,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,1522],"tags":[2043,222,2042],"class_list":["post-15919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ethics","category-innovation","tag-smartphones","tag-technology","tag-womens-rights"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/153"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15919"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15919\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69762,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15919\/revisions\/69762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}