Bill and Melinda Gates FoundationMelinda Gates’s new book, The Moment of Lift, is a great collection of stories about women she has met through her work at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation—from Pia Cayetano, a senator in the Philippines, to Ruchi, a community health worker in Uttar Pradesh. “I wanted to stay out of the public work because I’m a perfectionist,” she admits. Gates describes her realization that “it wasn’t enough to speak up for family planning, or even for each of the issues” she cared about. “I had to speak up for women.”Whether she grew into the habit or had it all along, there is no doubt that Melinda Gates today has impressive questioning capacity. And that’s a true moment of lift, at work or in life.

Source: Forbes May 03, 2019 20:26 UTC