Melinda Gates is co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. With her husband, Bill Gates, she shapes and approves the foundation’s strategies, reviews results and sets the overall direction of the organization. The goal is to improve equity in the United States and around the world. Through her work at the foundation over the past 15 years, Gates has seen firsthand that empowering women and girls can bring transformational improvements in the health and prosperity of families, communities and societies. Melinda Gates’s new book is “The Moment of Lift: How Empowering Women Changes the World” (Flatiron).
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