Melinda French Gates is a philanthropist, businesswoman, and global advocate for women and girls.
As the co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Melinda sets the direction and priorities of the world's largest philanthropy. She is also the founder of Pivotal Ventures, an investment and incubation company working to drive social progress for women and families in the United States.
Melinda grew up in Dallas, Texas. She received a bachelor's degree in computer science from Duke University and an MBA from Duke's Fuqua School. Melinda spent the first decade of her career developing multimedia products at Microsoft before leaving the company to focus on her family and philanthropic work. She lives in Seattle, Washington with her husband, Bill. They have three children, Jenn, Rory, and Phoebe.
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 a 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.
The subtitle ‘how empowering women changes the world’ sounds as if empowering women needs further justification, a grander reason than because women are marginalized and suppressed by all means. Women need to be empowered to have equal opportunities just ...
評分“If you want to lift up humanity, empower women” 作者是比尔盖茨的太太,the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation的创始人Melinda Gates。 这本书朴实而真诚,Melinda在书中结合了自己在职场和在盖茨基金会的经历,回顾了她遇到的那些inspire她的女性,也分享了她亲身了...
評分“If you want to lift up humanity, empower women” 作者是比尔盖茨的太太,the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation的创始人Melinda Gates。 这本书朴实而真诚,Melinda在书中结合了自己在职场和在盖茨基金会的经历,回顾了她遇到的那些inspire她的女性,也分享了她亲身了...
如果你能掌管世界上最有錢的慈善基金之一,你會怎樣改變世界呢。這個世界需要太多太多幫助,如何能讓選擇的項目得到最大化的迴報呢,Melinda的答案是投資給女性項目。 從避孕這一個簡單的項目做起,後麵的故事和數據讓人欣慰又驚心。
评分五星好評啊簡直,很多東西都說的很到位,把很多自己潛意識裏有的想法,但卻無法用語言錶述齣來的東西寫瞭齣來
评分“The supreme goal for humanity is not equality but connection.”
评分斷斷續續讀瞭很久纔讀完,到瞭最後也覺得“不痛不癢”。這類型的書想讓每個讀者産生共鳴自然不容易,但這本書裏關於落後國傢的女性麵對的問題讓人難以想象,關於發達國傢的精英女性麵對的問題又太老生常談。閱讀過程中經常會想到傢裏年邁的老人,尤其是外婆和奶奶,起早貪黑地勞作養傢,她們的精神真的很激勵人!
评分有很多insightful的故事,family planning和宗教之間的conflict很有趣。敘述稍微有一些囉嗦
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