The Moment of Lift: How Empowering Women Changes the World

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

“In her e book, Melinda tells the tales of the inspiring other people she’s met via her paintings everywhere the arena, digs into the knowledge, and powerfully illustrates problems that want our consideration―from kid marriage to gender inequity within the place of job.” ― President Barack Obama

“The Second of Raise is an pressing name to braveness. It modified how I take into accounts myself, my circle of relatives, my paintings, and what’s conceivable on this planet. Melinda weaves in combination inclined, courageous storytelling and compelling knowledge to make this a type of uncommon books that you simply elevate for your center and thoughts lengthy after the ultimate web page.”

― Brené Brown, Ph.D., writer of the New York Times #1 bestseller Dare to Lead

“Melinda Gates has spent a few years running with ladies world wide. This e book is an pressing manifesto for an equivalent society the place ladies are valued and identified in all spheres of existence. Such a lot of all, this is a name for cohesion, inclusion and connection. We’d like this message greater than ever.” ― Malala Yousafzai

“Melinda Gates’s e book is a lesson in listening. An impressive, poignant, and in the end humble name to palms.” ― Tara Westover, writer of the New York Times #1 bestseller Educated

A debut from Melinda Gates, a well timed and important name to motion for ladies’s empowerment.

“How are we able to summon a Second of Raise for humans – and particularly for ladies? As a result of while you Raise up ladies, you Raise up humanity.”

For the ultimate two decades, Melinda Gates has been on a challenge to search out answers for other people with essentially the most pressing wishes, anyplace they reside. All through this adventure, something has develop into increasingly more transparent to her: If you wish to Raise a society up, you want to prevent holding ladies down.

On this shifting and compelling e book, Melinda stocks classes she’s discovered from the inspiring other people she’s met all the way through her paintings and travels world wide. As she writes within the creation, “Because of this I needed to write this e book―to proportion the tales of people that have given focal point and urgency to my existence. I need all people to peer tactics we will be able to Raise ladies up the place we are living.”

Melinda’s unforgettable narrative is sponsored by means of startling knowledge as she gifts the problems that almost all want our consideration―from kid marriage to loss of get admission to to contraceptives to gender inequity within the place of job. And, for the primary time, she writes approximately her private existence and the street to equality in her personal marriage. All through, she presentations how there hasn’t ever been extra probability to switch the arena―and ourselves.

Writing with emotion, candor, and charm, she introduces us to outstanding ladies and presentations the facility of connecting with one some other.

After we Raise others up, they Raise us up, too.