The Moment of Lift: How Empowering Women Changes the World

A welcome and essential call to action for women's empowerment from Melinda Gates, the third most influential woman in the world according to Forbes.

Melinda Gates has had a purpose for the last twenty years. As co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, she has made it her mission to address the most pressing needs of people, no matter where they may reside. One thing has grown more and more obvious to her on this journey: invest in women if you want to improve society.

In this open and motivational book, Gates describes how she came to see the connection between the well-being of societies and the empowerment of women. She highlights a few of the amazing chances that we now have to "turbo-charge" change. She also offers easy-to-implement strategies that let each of us change the world.

Gates made her debut on the international scene to advocate for family planning because she firmly believed that every woman should have the autonomy to choose whether and when to have children. With that action, she began a campaign to remove gender prejudice in all its manifestations, guarantee that women have equal access to all types of employment, and persuade men worldwide to shoulder their fair part of domestic chores.

Throughout, Gates discusses inspiring discussions she's had with women from all around the globe, introduces us to her heroes in the fight for equality, provides shocking statistics, and demonstrates how we can all get engaged.

Driven by the conviction that no one should be excluded, that all lives have equal value, and that gender equity is the lever that lifts everything, Gates' journey from a partner working in the background to one of the world's foremost advocates for women is detailed in this book, a personal statement of passionate conviction.