The Moment of Lift: How Empowering Women Changes the World by Melinda GatesMy rating: 3 of 5 stars
Hooter: Stories of how empowering women can truly change the world through Melinda Gates Foundation's perspective.
The book follows three threads - the evolution of Melinda Gates as a person, Melinda Gates foundation and fifty percent of this world. While there has been a lot of awareness around gender diversity since this book was published, this is a great insight into some of the innovative initiatives around the world that the foundation has helped with in empowering women across various life events - pregnancy, safety, marriage, education and the corporate world.
Maybe because it is dated or maybe the audience is folks in ivory towers the way Melinda talks about extreme poverty as if it is a novelty did feel odd but sharing the reality of how many obstacles face women in day to day life even up to the level of legalese and corporate sexism with examples is a good reality check for folks who feel it doesnt exist.
"Love is the most powerful and underused force for change in the world. ... For me, love is the effort to help others flourish — and it often begins with lifting up a person's self image."
She looks at this intersectionality of challenges from various lenses and prisms and that's what I liked about the diversity she includes on one theme and totally resonate with her aim towards equality for every human being.
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