Oh, and there’s plenty of data and research to back it all up. She also gets personal, sharing her stories as a daughter, student, wife and mother. To build her case, Gates uses her on-the-ground experiences, the stories of the extraordinary people she meets, and what she’s learned at Microsoft and the Gates Foundation. Gates’ book is a smart, thoughtful and passionate look at the problems behind inequality among some of the most marginalized populations in the world. In her new book, The Moment of Lift: How Empowering Women Changes the World, she pulls everything she’s learned together to come up with one major takeaway: When we lift up women and girls everywhere, it benefits us all.īefore you dismiss this as another social justice do-gooder book by a wealthy white woman, don’t. In the past two decades, Melinda Gates has worked on some of the greatest challenges in global health, including making vaccinations and family planning more widely accessible.

Melinda Gates draws on her extensive on-the-ground experience in developing countries, as well as her career in the tech industry, for insights in her new book, ‘The Moment of Lift.’ In this photo, the co-chair & trustee, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation tours FPAM (Family Planning Association of Malawi) clinic in Lilongwe, Malawi.

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