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Loading... The Moment of Lift: How Empowering Women Changes the Worldby Melinda Gates
   No current Talk conversations about this book.  Kaianna.Isaure | Dec 21, 2023 |    ) MsTera | Oct 10, 2023 |  ) MandyPS | May 13, 2023 | Boy was I wrong on that. This book is a must read for anyone, no matter your sex/gender/lot in life, it's eye opening and empowering. While the title will lead you to believe that the target audience for this book is women, and that reading it will leave women empowered, that couldn't be further from the truth. Melinda tells the story about her journey in empowering women and how it cascaded into changing the views/lives of men and women around the globe. From America to India, and every village in between, she shares stories of people that she admires, and how one idea led to large scale social change for many. I adore Melinda's take on how to solve problems, and listen with the intent to understand. Each time she thinks she has a handle on a small problem, she discovers a much bigger picture that needs to be addressed. She is humble, and open to to understanding life from a different perspective. It's inspiring. The way she was able to continually tie so much back to family planning shocked me, but also made complete sense. “…contraceptives are the greatest life-saving, poverty-ending, women-empowering innovation ever created.” The story she is telling is laid out in a manner that makes it easy to follow and understand how she is who she is today. From her personal family background, to her struggles with the boys club. It was cool to listen to how she became a more confident and assertive version of herself and spread her own wings of empowerment. So often people brush off items that aren't their problem, as "since I don't struggle with this, no one is anymore. It's history, a problem that has been solved." But that isn't true. Melinda points out so many areas that we are still working as a society to make better. I leave this book with a new understanding of her foundation, and how much just listening can blossom a wave of change. I encourage you to read it. The audiobook was great, as she narrates it, and puts the emphasis in all the right places. “And the starting point for human improvement is empathy. Everything flows from that. Empathy allows for listening, and listening leads to understanding. That’s how we gain a common base of knowledge. When people can’t agree, it’s often because there is no empathy, no sense of shared experience. If you feel what others feel, you’re more likely to see what they see. Then you can understand one another. Then you can move to the honest and respectful exchange of ideas that is the mark of a successful partnership. That’s the source of progress.”( ) SabethaDanes | Jan 30, 2023 | The novel delves into real stories of women impacted by the work (before & after), what the foundation is doing to support and ultimately why this work is necessary - to bring in the marginalized and empower women so we can all be contributing members of society. Melinda is a wonderful storyteller - she is authentic, honest and candid. I highly recommend this book for anyone looking to learn from an inspiring women and interested in social justice work. ( ) Ash92 | Dec 27, 2022 | no reviews | add a review
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HTML: "The Moment of Lift is an urgent call to courage. It changed how I think about myself, my family, my work, and what's possible in the world. Melinda weaves together vulnerable, brave storytelling and compelling data to make this one of those rare books that you carry in your heart and mind long after the last page." â?? BrenĂ© Brown, Ph.D., author of the New York Times #1 bestseller Dare to Lead "Melinda Gates's book is a lesson in listening. A powerful, poignant, and ultimately humble call to arms." â?? Tara Westover, author of the New York Times #1 bestseller EDUCATED "How can we summon a moment of lift for human beings â?? and especially for women? Because when you lift up women, you lift up humanity." For the last twenty years, Melinda Gates has been on a mission 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, you need to stop keeping women down. In this moving and compelling book, Melinda shares lessons she's learned from the inspiring people she's met during her work and travels around the world. As she writes in the introduction, "That is why I had to write this bookâ??to share the stories of people who have given focus and urgency to my life. I want all of us to see ways we can lift women up where we live." Melinda's unforgettable narrative is backed by startling data as she presents the issues that most need our attentionâ??from child marriage to lack of access to contraceptives to gender inequity in the workplace. And, for the first time, she writes about her personal life and the road to equality in her own marriage. Throughout, she shows how there has never been more opportunity to change the worldâ??and ourselves. Writing with emotion, candor, and grace, she introduces us to remarkable women and shows the power of connecting with one another. When we lift others up, the No library descriptions found. |
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What I learned from this book is that educating men on family planning and how to love the women in their lives without pressuring them to have children in a multitude is as important as treating themselves and societies well with care. Teach a man how to properly care and treat a woman and her body and you have educated a generation and the future of society in a small but powerful way. (