The Moment of Lift, Melinda French Gates
The Moment of Lift, Melinda French Gates
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The Moment of Lift
How Empowering Women Changes the World

Bestseller

Author: Melinda French Gates

Narrator: Melinda French Gates

Unabridged: 8 hr 9 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 04/23/2019


Synopsis

**One of AudioFile Magazine's Best Audiobooks of 2019**

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

Now with a new afterword!

How can we summon a moment of lift for human beings—and especially for women? Because when you lift up women, you lift up humanity.

For the last twenty years, Melinda Gates has been on a mission to find solutions for people with the most urgent needs, wherever they live. Throughout this journey, one thing has become increasingly clear to her: If you want to lift society up, you need to stop keeping women down.

In this moving and compelling book, Melinda shares lessons she’s learned from the inspiring people she’s met during her work and travels around the world. As she writes in the introduction, “That is why I had to write this book—to share the stories of people who have given focus and urgency to my life. I want all of us to see ways we can lift women up where we live.”

Melinda’s unforgettable narrative is backed by startling data as she presents the issues that most need our attention—from child marriage to lack of access to contraceptives to gender inequity in the workplace. And, for the first time, she writes about her personal life and the road to equality in her own marriage. Throughout, she shows how there has never been more opportunity to change the world—and ourselves.

Writing with emotion, candor, and grace, she introduces us to remarkable women and shows the power of connecting with one another.

When we lift others up, they lift us up, too.

A Macmillan Audio production from Flatiron Books

“The Moment of Lift is an urgent call to courage. It changed how I think about myself, my family, my work, and what’s possible in the world. Melinda weaves together vulnerable, brave storytelling and compelling data to make this one of those rare books that you carry in your heart and mind long after the last page.” — Brené Brown, Ph.D., author of the New York Times #1 bestseller Dare to Lead

“Melinda Gates has spent many years working with women around the world. This book is an urgent manifesto for an equal society where women are valued and recognized in all spheres of life. Most of all, it is a call for unity, inclusion and connection. We need this message more than ever.”— Malala Yousafzai

"Melinda Gates's book is a lesson in listening. A powerful, poignant, and ultimately humble call to arms." — Tara Westover, author of the New York Times #1 bestseller EDUCATED

About Melinda French Gates

Melinda French Gates is a philanthropist, businesswoman, and global advocate for women and girls. For over 25 years, Melinda has led efforts to unlock a healthier, more prosperous, more equal future. Today, she heads Pivotal, an organization she formed in 2015 that works to accelerate the pace of progress and advance women’s power and influence in the U.S. and around the world. Previously, she founded and co-chaired the Gates Foundation, where, for more than two decades, she set the direction and priorities of the world’s largest philanthropy. Melinda is also the author of the bestselling book The Moment of Lift and the creator of Moment of Lift Books, an imprint publishing original nonfiction by visionaries working to unlock a more equal world.Melinda grew up in Dallas, Texas and attended Duke University, where she received a bachelor's degree in computer science and economics and an MBA. She spent the first decade of her career developing multimedia products at Microsoft before leaving the company to focus on her family and philanthropic work. Melinda has three children—Jenn, Rory, and Phoebe—and lives in Seattle, Washington.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Bill on April 09, 2019

I would say this even if I weren’t married to the author: The Moment of Lift is a terrific read. It is a wise, honest, and beautifully written book about how empowering women lifts up everyone. (None of that will be surprising to anyone who knows Melinda.) Although it took her about a year to write,......more

Goodreads review by Suz on May 10, 2019

If you invest in a girl or a woman, you’re investing in everyone else. I did not realise the depth of philanthropy that Melinda Gates is invested in. She is seriously invested in the rights of women and making women more empowered around the world. She works tirelessly within her organisation the......more

Goodreads review by Dr. Appu on February 23, 2024

Melinda Ann French is an American philanthropist who is one of the founders of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. She is one of the prominent persons who took the initiative for billionaires worldwide to start spending money on socially relevant causes. This book tells us how she started the founda......more

Goodreads review by Mario the lone bookwolf on November 02, 2019

Discriminating half of your population is a crime against humanity of such immense stupidity that hardly any words can be found to describe it. Next to the social and millionfold individual suffering, the scientific and economic damage is immense and countries lead by such deluded conservatives are......more

Goodreads review by Sharon on January 21, 2023

Melinda French Gates does a phenomenal job describing how to empower women around the world. It is based on her experience tackling incredibly challenging and complex issues with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Each chapter focuses on a specific area: family planning, schooling, unpaid work,......more


Quotes

AudioFile Magazine Editors' Pick

"Gates is the feminist we all need; she has studied how broadening women's rights also raises their earning potential, which contributes to national development." -AudioFile Magazine, Earphones Award Winner