Summary of Melinda Gates's The Moment of Lift

Everest Media

Description

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
Sample Book Insights:
#1 I attended Ursuline Academy, an all-girls Catholic high school in Dallas. In my senior year, I took a campus tour of Duke University and was awed by its computer science department. I enrolled at Duke and graduated five years later with a bachelor’s degree in computer science and a master’s in business.
#2 I am an ardent feminist. I believe that every woman should be able to use her voice and pursue her potential, and that women and men should work together to take down the barriers that still hold women back.
#3 I had left Microsoft to find the right creative outlet. I was passionate about how you get girls and women involved in technology, because technology had helped me so much during my high school years and beyond.
#4 I had the opportunity to have two careers and the family of my dreams because we were in the fortunate position of not needing my income. I had the benefit of a small pill that allowed me to space my pregnancies.

Sujets

• Catholicisme
• Women's Studies
• Social Science
• Sociologie, société et politique
• Women's studies

Informations

• Publié par: Everest Media LLC
• Date de parution: 26 mars 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781669397359
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

Extrait

Insights on Melinda Gates's The Moment of Lift
Contents Insights from Chapter 1 Insights from Chapter 2 Insights from Chapter 3 Insights from Chapter 4 Insights from Chapter 5 Insights from Chapter 6 Insights from Chapter 7 Insights from Chapter 8 Insights from Chapter 9
Insights from Chapter 1

#1

I attended Ursuline Academy, an all-girls Catholic high school in Dallas. In my senior year, I took a campus tour of Duke University and was awed by its computer science department. I enrolled at Duke and graduated five years later with a bachelor’s degree in computer science and a master’s in business.

#2

I am an ardent feminist. I believe that every woman should be able to use her voice and pursue her potential, and that women and men should work together to take down the barriers that still hold women back.

#3

I had left Microsoft to find the right creative outlet. I was passionate about how you get girls and women involved in technology, because technology had helped me so much during my high school years and beyond.

#4

I had the opportunity to have two careers and the family of my dreams because we were in the fortunate position of not needing my income. I had the benefit of a small pill that allowed me to space my pregnancies.

#5

The Gates Foundation was set up in 2000. I wanted to take on more work, but I wanted to stay out of the public eye. I didn’t want to spend more time away from the kids, and I wanted to protect their privacy.

#6

I began to see how the problems of poverty and disease are always connected. There are no isolated problems.

#7

I began to see the need for contraceptives in the developing world, and understood that when women were able to space their births by at least three years, each baby was almost twice as likely to survive their first year.

#8

I began to feel that if anything was worth those costs, it was this. I couldn’t look the other way as women and children were dying for want of a widely available tool that could save their lives.

#9

I decided to speak out publicly for family planning. I accepted an invitation from the UK government to cosponsor a family planning summit in London with as many heads of state, experts, and activists as we could attract.

#10

The global conference on family planning that I had worried about was much more successful than I expected. The United Kingdom doubled its commitment to family planning, and the presidents of Tanzania, Rwanda, Uganda, and Burkina Faso helped raise $2 billion from developing countries.

#11

I had to accept that the wounds of those girls in Senegal and the needs of women around the world were beyond anything I could heal. I had to accept that my job is to do my part and stay optimistic.

#12

The most effective way to help improve the lives of others is to empower women. When women can use their talent and energy, they begin to speak in their own voices for their own values, and that makes everyone’s life better.

#13

The primary causes of poverty and illness are the cultural, financial, and legal restrictions that block what women can do for themselves and their children. When these barriers are broken, opportunities open up that not only lift women out of poverty, but can elevate women to equality with men in every culture and every level of society.
Insights from Chapter 2

#1

I visited Sweden in 2016 to say good-bye to one of my heroes, professor Hans Rosling, who died in 2017. Hans was a trailblazing professor of international health who became famous for teaching experts facts they should already know.

#2

The number of people living in extreme poverty has decreased from 1.