Moment of Lift – Gates Melinda (2025)

“We need this message more than ever,” says Malala Yousafzai. A Sunday Times bestseller, The Moment of Lift presents hard-hitting yet uplifting true stories of women around the world facing extreme gender inequality. When the wider community supports them in challenging the status quo, they improve life for society as a whole. Melinda French Gates shares stories of the inspiring people she has met through her work and travels, along with the lessons she has learned from them. She examines issues demanding urgent attention, from child marriage and limited access to contraceptives to inequality in the workplace, and writes for the first time about her personal life and the path to equality in her own marriage. The book asks how we can create a moment of lift for humanity, especially for women, and highlights rights denied to women in some parts of the world, including the right to spend their own money, attend school, earn an income, work outside the home, choose whom to marry, start a business, own property, divorce, see a doctor and drive. When we lift others up, they lift us up, too.