Melinda Gates on Breaking Barriers: Book Insight on The Moment of Lift by Melinda Gates

• Since co-founding the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in 2000, Melinda Gates has worked on initiatives to improve healthcare and educational opportunities and reduce poverty around the world. 
• The foundation’s mission has taken her across Africa, India and Southeast Asia, as well as closer to home in the US. 
• Throughout her travels, she has met inspiring and courageous women struggling with extreme poverty, outmoded practices or lack of opportunities. 
• Their stories are recorded here, alongside hard data and some of Gates’ own experiences as a mother and wife. 
• The result is a candid and compelling case for raising women up and connecting with one another, for the good of society as a whole.

3:32 Part One: Empower Women Through Contraception, Family Planning, and Education

12:48 Part Two: Reward Unpaid Work to Reduce Equality

24:07 Part Three: Change Cultures and Traditions of Discrimination

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HEAR THE FULL INTERVIEWS MENTIONED IN TODAYS' EPISODE HERE:

"TED - Let's Put Birth Control Back On The Agenda"
https://www.ted.com/talks/melinda_gates_let_s_put_birth_control_back_on_the_agenda?language=en

"C-SPAN - Moment of Lift"
https://www.c-span.org/video/?460179-1/the-moment-lift&start=2346

"Melina Gates On Marriage, Gender Equality & Solving Tough Problems"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BuYfALzDPrY&feature=share

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Full Title: The Moment of Lift: How Empowering Women Changes the World

Year of Publication: 2019

Book Author: Melinda Gates

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Book Insight Writer: Wen-Ching Shang
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