I will expand a little on my “yes”.
We firmly believe the best way to help poor children is to help their mothers, and there is lots of research, including evaluation of our own economic development programs, that supports that belief. Research by the United Nations and the World Bank firmly demonstrates that investments in women produce the greatest returns in terms of democracy and in terms of stronger economies. The countries that have the strongest protection for women's rights and investment in women are the ones that are the healthiest. There is lots of evidence to support that now.
We see it in evaluation of our own programs in terms of the extent to which women, as soon as they start to change their financial situations, immediately start investing in their children. They start with things such as allowing their kids to go to birthday parties again. They haven't been able to go before, because they couldn't afford presents. Simple things like that really speak to kids' inclusion in things and how kids feel about themselves. It goes all the way up to our research demonstrating that 30% of the women in the programs that we fund are now involved in the community, volunteering as well as giving back economically.
So there's lots of evidence to support it.