Melinda Gates on Fighting for Gender Equality

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🗓️ 4 October 2019

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Melinda Gates, cochair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and founder of Pivotal Ventures, is committing $1 billion over the next ten years to advance gender equality. She says evidence shows it's the best way to drive economic development in nations and performance in companies. She shares her own stories as a female executive at Microsoft, a working mother, and a nonprofit leader learning from women around the world. Gates is the author of the HBR article "Gender Equality Is Within Our Reach."

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0:00.0	When leadership advice feels like buzzwords and platitudes, it's time to get real.
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0:11.9	leaders through raw honest career questions
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0:20.5	Hi Idea Cast listeners, it's Allison Beard.
0:26.0	I'm really excited for you to listen to this interview with Melinda Gates, which we taped live in New York.
0:31.0	Since that happened, she's actually taken another big step in her push
0:34.3	for gender equality, announcing that she's committing $1 billion over the next 10
0:39.2	years to expand women's power and influence in the United States through her company
0:43.4	Pivotal Ventures. I'm Allison Beard. You probably know today's guest as one of the world's most prominent and generous philanthropists.
1:15.0	She and her husband have created a foundation that has given away more than 50 billion dollars
1:22.0	to health education and economic
1:25.1	development programs around the globe. But before all of that,
1:28.8	Melinda Gates, then Melinda French, was a young lady with a lot of ambition. She loved school.
1:36.3	She was fascinated by computers. She got degrees in economics and computer science and then an MBA. She took a job at a
1:45.4	little startup called Microsoft and she went on to manage some of its most important
1:51.6	projects and people.
1:54.0	After stepping back for a bit to raise her kids,
1:56.7	she stepped up into an even bigger role,
1:59.8	driving the agenda for her family's huge charitable organization.
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