The Moment of Lift

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

How can we summon a moment of lift for human beingsΓÇöand 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 society up, you need to stop keeping women down.

In this moving and compelling book, Melinda shares lessons sheΓÇÖs learned from the inspiring people sheΓÇÖs met during her work and travels around the world. As she writes in the introduction, ΓÇ£That is why I had to write this bookΓÇöto 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.ΓÇ¥

MelindaΓÇÖs unforgettable narrative is backed by startling data as she presents the issues that most need our attentionΓÇöfrom 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 worldΓÇöand 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, they lift us up, too.