The Moment of Lift: How Empowering Women Changes the World

The book itself is very informative and is a really good read. The delivery was also very quick and efficient.

It gives a view on gates foundation and I was in total awe of their work. Gives a perspective of how hard it is to lead a life for people around the world, especially women.

Book is very nicely written may be a volume 2 has to come to explain other social work done 👍

A must-read for all those interested in women's welfare. Written by Melinda Gates, a forthright woman who gives her field-data driven opinions and is not afraid to cross swords with those who wish to deny family planning methods to women.

It takes you through journey of women from different geographies defying the same or similar kind of problems. Read to find out more.

Great book - no damages when I received the book from Amazon seller.

Melinda has shared many many learning’s for everyone, specially relevant to those working in the social sector. I also admire her for being transparent about her personal issues.

Lucid language, statistically verified data, writen from a woman-centric point of view.

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 I've read in ages. It is a mixture of autobiography, Microsoft lore, and compelling lessons learned all over the world about women's potential and power. Melinda Gates's 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 you're in Africa driving in a rural area, look out the window and see who's working in the fields. They're almost all women. If you listen only to the men, because they're the ones with the time and social permission to go to the meetings, then you're not going to know what the women really need, and they're 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 didn't 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 Haram's 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?

I haven't finished this book but I've read enough of it to feel compelled to write a review. I found myself thoroughly immersed in Melinda's story and enjoy the way she writes. I like the way it feels like I'm sitting at her kitchen table with a mug of coffee and I'm listening just to her talk. This is a thought provoking book and I encourage men and women, young and old to read it as all will gain something by doing so.

I won’t proclaim to know a lot about the Gates family. Besides knowing that Bill Gates owned Microsoft (I think) before reading this book I wouldn’t have been able to tell you much else except maybe the conspiracy theories surrounding the Covid jab but even then that was all conjecture. What I know now after reading The Moment of Lift is that the Gates family seem like pretty alright people.Okay, so the book is hardly subjective being written by Melinda Gates and therefore being her perspective and highlighting the positives but if we look at the positives as a whole then the work that she does to help people seems pretty great. Educating girls about how to keep themselves safe, how to deliver babies safely in underpriviliged countries. Encouraging young women to get into STEM – on paper it all sounds wonderful.Even if it turns out that all the conspiracy theories are true the things that you can take from this book is that it is well written and that it does elevate you to think differently about other people and how we all could do with helping others. That is a message that really resonates.The Moment of Lift by Melinda Gates is available now.

Initially I thought another self indulgent book by someone rich and famous...About 30 pages in my opinion changed...Melinda Gates has written an in-depth account of a depressing, sad situation occurring in certain cultures. She has used her fame and fortune to give desperately deprived women and their children hope that their lives can improve and are improving...An interesting read and a humble account of her journey to give support and help to a very brutal world many women are born into.

Good book overall with some key points. Personally I prefer to read books that make arguments back with data. I just felt this book reaked of Melindas priveledge throughout- "I" and "my" being the two most used words. Not withstanding the cliche- white billionmaire philanthropist. No discredit to the acheievments, I just think the book could have been more about the problems than about melindas view of the problems, and a play by play of every conversation she'd ever had with a person of colour.