The Moment of Lift
How Empowering Women Changes the World
Gates makes the data-and-story case that empowering women, on contraception, education, and unpaid work, is the fastest way to lift a whole society.
Drawing on two decades of the Gates Foundation’s global work, Melinda French Gates argues that the fastest way to lift a society is to empower its women. She braids data on contraception, child marriage, unpaid labor, and education with the stories of women she met in the field, and with candid reflection on her own marriage and workplace. Part call to action, part memoir, the book makes an evidence-based case that gender equity benefits everyone, not only women.
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