The Moment of Lift

The Moment of Lift: How Empowering Women Changes the World

Melinda Gates

In her first book, Melinda Gates explains how she came to believe that the best way to fix a society is to empower its women, and calls for others to take on this important work, too. She details her own life—including her personal struggles to be an equal in her home—as well as the lives she’s helped change through her philanthropy. In doing so, Gates offers a guide to the thinking of one of the wealthiest women on earth, who co-chairs the world’s largest private foundation.

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