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

To purchase the complete edition of this book click here:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07NHHT9QD/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1



Book Insight Writer: Wen-Ching Shang

Editor: Monica Woods

Producer: Karin Richey

Production Manager: Karin Richey

Curator: Tom Butler-Bowdon

Narrator: Krysta Gonzalez