The Moment of Lift: How Empowering Women Changes the World by Melinda French Gates

The Moment of Lift: How Empowering Women Changes the World Reviews

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  VMan58

  A woman friend lent me Invisible Woman by Caroline Perez which has a reference to Melinda Gates Moment of Lift. So I bought and read it. I found this book takes a diiferent tact to Invisible Woman but between the two they are the most interesting books I have read in
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  goodreads Customer

  Bought this as a gift for a friend and she was very excited to read it. So it did the job!
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  Mandy

  A tad slow going at times but we should all know what the Gates know and do. Impressive.
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  Matthew Bywater

  Brilliant book on how we should move forward as a society
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  Sharon M

  Great read, very inspiring.
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  Fabio

  Its crazy to know how much is going on out there and we know nothing about. This book was a recommendation and it was a great one, I believe not everyone would be able to do what the Gates are doing, but if we are aware of those we can maybe facilitate and
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  Charlene Porisky

  This book will open your heart and inspire you, will meet you where you’re at, and fill your heart with desire to create change. Melinda Gates’ voice comes through strong and clear in this book. Her words remind women that they are not alone in their struggles. I feel like her beautiful heart has been hiding in plain sight, and after reading her book I feel she’s a shining, bright, guiding star. Oprah needs to interview this woman and share her words with the world.
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  Kat Ryker

  Prior to publication, Id read a little bit of what Melinda Gates wrote about this book, how she felt while writing it and how she felt once it was published. I know there are a group of people out there who will discount this book automatically, without realizing that this womans thoughts on the problems of the world are valid and timelyand above all else, shows us a womans view of the world that most of us will never see in person.Gates is best known, publicly, as the wife of a very rich man. Thats truly sad, because I highly doubt that he would hold her in such high regard if she were just a wife.This book is full of stories and recollections that we all could learn from. Shes managed to teach us without being preachy, and guide us through the complexities of some problems without letting her writing be dragged down by the prose.Once I started reading this, I really didnt want to put it down and even though I had a lot of things that needed done this weekend, this book got top billing. And Im not one bit sorry. If you are one of those few who cant mature enough to admire the philanthropy of The Gates Foundation, and if you cannot put aside your hatred of the 1%, then you probably will struggle with this book. The Foundation has done a lot of good and I, for one, admire the woman closest to it.This is a wonderful book by a well traveled woman who uses her story telling ability to show us the women shes met in her travels. This is truly a great read for women, about women, and should be read by both men and women.
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  gcX

  Due cose importantissime, oggi, che chi legge questo libro non scorda più. La prima: per poter dire di conoscere bisogna prima CAPIRE. La seconda: Melinda, una donna, moglie di un magnate (Bill Gates) di carattere brusco ma tanto sensibile da assecondarla in tutto, ha fatto per lAfrica subsahariana più di quanto abbiano fatto tutte insieme le Organizzazioni Internazionali.
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  Emi Yoshida

  Read this for a book club comprised of American women living abroad, should be an awesome discussion, because this book by Melinda Gates is the most inspiring thing Ive read in ages. It is a mixture of autobiography, Microsoft lore, and compelling lessons learned all over the world about womens potential and power. Melinda Gatess mission statement is that all lives have equal value, and in this book she stresses her efforts to help mothers protect their children; by providing education and contraception, dashing stigma and gender bias, and supporting inclusion and diversity, we minimize newborn deaths, eliminate genital mutilation and forced marriage, and prevent future lives of crime and poverty.Gates really drove home the messages of Christianity and that women are doing the heavy lifting in the farm fields, Next time youre in Africa driving in a rural area, look out the window and see whos working in the fields. Theyre almost all women. If you listen only to the men, because theyre the ones with the time and social permission to go to the meetings, then youre not going to know what the women really need, and theyre the ones who are doing most of the work. This totally brought driving through Jordan, Qatar, and Egypt to my mind, in that we only ever saw men and boys out in the streets, socializing all hours drinking tea and smoking hugging and chatting, while the women and girls were nowhere to be seen I gather because in Muslim culture the women are always hard at work inside. We looked for and didnt see girls among the crowds of boys in school uniforms.Anyways, these were some of my favorite facts from The Moment of Lift: Did you know that Boko Harams name actually means Western education is forbidden? Or that for girls age 15 to 19 around the world, the leading cause of death is childbirth? Or that the US is one of only seven countries in the world that do not provide paid maternity leave joining Papua New Guinea, Suriname, and a handful of other island nations?
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  Hugo Gamboa

  Book came as lousy made, not good quality the guillotine was not used properly making the cuts of the sheet uneven. I bought this as a gift and definitely Im not going to give this book like this. What a waste of money.