The Moment Of Lift: How Empowering Women Changes The World

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A powerful and necessary call to action for women’s empowerment from Melinda Gates, marking her debut. This inspiring book features endorsements from Malala Yousafzai, Barack Obama, Tara Westover, and Brené Brown, highlighting its urgency and importance. Melinda Gates shares profound lessons learned from her twenty-year mission to address urgent global needs, revealing the interconnectedness of women’s empowerment and societal progress. The book emphasizes that lifting women up is essential for lifting humanity. Through compelling narratives and startling data, Gates explores critical issues such as child marriage, limited access to contraceptives, and gender inequity in the workplace. She also offers a personal account of her journey toward equality within her own marriage. With emotion, candor, and grace, Gates introduces remarkable women and showcases the transformative power of connection, illustrating how lifting others uplifts ourselves. The book argues that the present moment offers unprecedented opportunities for global and personal change.

About the Author

Co-chair of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the largest private foundation in the world, Melinda Gates has dedicated her life to achieving transformational improvements in the health and prosperity of families, communities and societies. Core to her work is empowering women and girls to help them realise their full potential. Melinda received a bachelor’s degree from Duke and an MBA from Duke’s Fuqua School. After joining Microsoft Corp. in 1987, she helped develop many of the company’s multimedia products. In 1996, Melinda left Microsoft to focus on her philanthropic work and family. In 2015, Melinda created Pivotal Ventures, an investment and incubation company that enables her to bring together new and emerging strands of her advocacy and philanthropic work focused in the US.

9781529005516 ISBN
Women in History
World
History & Theory
Teaching & Education
Higher Education Textbooks