Hard-hitting and uplifting true stories of the women around the world facing extreme gender inequality who, when the wider community supports them to challenge the status quo, improve life for the whole of society.
Melinda Gates Ordine dei libri (cronologico)
Melinda French Gates è una filantropa, imprenditrice e sostenitrice globale di donne e ragazze. In qualità di copresidente della Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, definisce la direzione e le priorità della più grande filantropia del mondo. Ha anche fondato Pivotal Ventures, una società di investimento e incubazione focalizzata sul progresso sociale per donne e famiglie negli Stati Uniti. La sua carriera è iniziata con un decennio di sviluppo di prodotti multimediali presso Microsoft, dopodiché ha spostato la sua attenzione sulla famiglia e sul lavoro filantropico.
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.