女性的时刻 – The Moment of Lift: How Empowering Women Changes the World by Melinda Gates

在比尔及梅琳达盖茨基金会成立20年，帮助了全球数以亿计的女性、儿童之后，联席主席梅琳达·盖茨首次来到台前，讲述她所目睹的无数底层女性的困境及抗争；分享她对男女不平等根源的深度思考，发展和投资女性的实践经验，以及那些致力于改善女性生存环境的理想主义者，正如何以一己之力改变世界。

从女性生育自主、受教育权、家务劳动、童婚问题到职场性别歧视，她发现，有时只要不去拖累女性，就是给她们翅膀。而提升女性，也带来整个社会的繁荣。

在本书中，你会读到一位印度修女的故事，她开办了一所学校，专门面向那些被当地人视作“贱民”的女孩。

你会读到一位新西兰经济学家的故事，她勇敢地挑战统计数据中存在的偏见，让世界从此开始重视女性在家庭中付出的无偿劳动。

你还会读到梅琳达自己的成长经历，她如何加入初创时期的微软，成为当时屈指可数的女性领导者；她的婚姻平等之路，她与比尔·盖茨如何通过分工合作，协调家庭与工作。

女人如果在另一个女人的故事中听到自己的声音，她就会变得勇敢，单薄的声音就会变成合唱。当打压她的文化环境被改变，当她可以摆脱贫穷、自我怀疑、恐惧和耻感，她会迸发出无比强大的力量。

A debut from Forbes’ third most powerful woman in the world, Melinda Gates, a timely and necessary call to action for women’s empowerment.

For the last twenty years, Melinda Gates has been on a mission. Her goal, as co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, has been 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, invest in women.

In this candid and inspiring book, Gates traces her awakening to the link between women’s empowerment and the health of societies. She shows some of the tremendous opportunities that exist right now to “turbo-charge” change. And she provides simple and effective ways each one of us can make a difference.

Convinced that all women should be free to decide whether and when to have children, Gates took her first step onto the global stage to make a stand for family planning. That step launched her into further efforts: to ensure women everywhere have access to every kind of job; to encourage men around the globe to share equally in the burdens of household work; to advocate for paid family leave for everyone; to eliminate gender bias in all its forms.

Throughout, Gates introduces us to her heroes in the movement towards equality, offers startling data, shares moving conversations she’s had with women from all over the world—and shows how we can all get involved.

A personal statement of passionate conviction, this book tells of Gates’ journey from a partner working behind the scenes to one of the world’s foremost advocates for women, driven by the belief that no one should be excluded, all lives have equal value, and gender equity is the lever that lifts everything.

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