Melinda French Gates
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Amal Clooney, Melinda French Gates, and Michelle Obama Share 3 Ways to Help End Child Marriage
Amal Clooney, Melinda French Gates, and Michelle Obama write that ending child marriage is critical for a more equal world. → Read More
Melinda French Gates Highlights 5 Women Inspiring Change in Their Communities in Rwanda and Senegal
The global advocate for women and girls shares the stories of some extraordinary women whose vision and ingenuity are creating new possibilities for their countries and industries. → Read More
Decisions Are Still Being Made For Women, Instead of By Them. We’re Suffering As a Result
Melinda French Gates writes about the potential ruling to overturn Roe and what it reveals about power in society → Read More
Melinda French Gates: Our Economy Is Powered by Caregivers. That’s Why It’s Time for National Paid Leave
Melinda French Gates writes that at some point almost everyone who works will need time away from their job to take care of themselves or someone they love, and that's why Congress should finally pass paid family and medical leave. → Read More
Adi Utarini: The 100 Most Influential People of 2021
Find out why Adi Utarini is one of the 100 most influential people of 2021. → Read More
Melinda Gates: Why Women's Voices Must Be at the Center of Rebuilding After COVID-19
"COVID-19 has helped us see the failures of our social contract with new clarity, and all around the world, people are refusing to look away." → Read More
Melinda Gates: This pandemic has exposed our nation’s broken caregiving system
The Biden administration can create a position for much-needed relief. → Read More
Melinda Gates: How rethinking caregiving could play a crucial role in restarting the economy
To ensure a fast and inclusive recovery, governments, business leaders and investors need to make caregiving a priority. → Read More
Melinda Gates: In pandemic, your actions can help save lives
Experts and frontline health workers are rising to meet this challenge — and counting on you to do the same. → Read More
The One Thing Melinda Gates Will Keep Forever Is an Apple III
For their new book, Bill Shapiro and Naomi Wax talked to hundreds of people—counterfeiter, Eagle Scout, astronaut, Melinda Gates—about the one thing they hold onto far past the point of practicality, and why it still matters. → Read More
Melinda Gates
As co-chair of the foundation, Melinda Gates shapes and approves strategies, reviews results, and sets the overall direction of the organization. Over the last 15 years, her work has led her to increasingly focus on empowering women and girls as a way to bring transformational improvements in the health and prosperity of families, communities and societies. Melinda received a bachelor’s degree… → Read More
Melinda Gates: What Graduates Need to Hear at Commencement This Year
As business leaders give commencement speeches at college graduation ceremonies, they shouldn't just offer hope. They should make a promise. → Read More
This Mother’s Day, Something Else to Celebrate
In honor of Mother's Day, Melinda Gates writes about why she decided to leave the workforce when she had children, and why she decided to go back to her career. → Read More
Melinda Gates: It's Time for a New Era for Women
Melinda Gates writes that under the radar, grassroots organizations led by women are quietly changing the world. → Read More
Melinda Gates: 'Me Too, Me Too, Me Too' Is Changing the World
The philanthropist writes about the 'Me too' movement that has swept the globe and forced institutions to usher in change → Read More
Melinda Gates: The World is Finally Listening. Me too. Me too. Me too.
The philanthropist writes about the 'Me too' movement that has swept the globe and forced institutions to usher in change → Read More
Melinda Gates: The World is Finally Listening. Me too. Me too. Me too.
The philanthropist writes about the 'Me too' movement that has swept the globe and forced institutions to usher in change → Read More
Melinda Gates on Five Ways to Give Back in Honor of International Day of the Girl
"In every country on every continent, we still have work to do to achieve gender equality." → Read More
Closing the gender gap in venture capital deserves our immediate and sustained attention
I asked investors Kathryn Minshew, Theresia Gouw, Jennifer Fonstad and Reid Hoffman about steps that companies, VCs and decision makers can take to be a part of the solution. → Read More
Melinda Gates: I wasn't prepared for technology's effect on my kids
I spent my career at Microsoft trying to imagine what technology could do, and still I wasn't prepared for smartphones and social media. Like many parents with children my kids' age, I didn't understand how they would transform the way my kids grew up -- and the way I wanted to parent. I'm still trying to catch up. → Read More