Melinda Gates

Woman's Hour

BBC

Society & Culture

4.1 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 25 April 2019

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Melinda Gates’s new book The Moment of Lift: How Empowering Women Changes the World explains that empowering women can profoundly change the way that societies function. She is, along with husband Bill Gates, the founder the world’s largest private charitable organisation and has consistently been ranked as one of the world's most powerful women by Forbes. So why has creating equality in her home life been such a struggle? When Josie Rourke became the Artistic Director of the Donmar Warehouse she was one of the first female theatre directors to be appointed to that role. Nearly eight years later she tells Jenni why she has chosen the musical Sweet Charity as her swan song and, in terms of gender, how much the face of theatre has changed in the last ten years. The UK government is backing a Nigerian advertising campaign urging Nigerian women and girls to find jobs at home instead of “risking a life of modern slavery” in Britain. So how bad is the problem here in the UK? Jenni is joined by Kathryn Baldacchino, Project Manager at Protect, the Anti-Trafficking Project at the British Red Cross and Kate Roberts, Head of Office at the Human Trafficking Foundation. The World Health Organisation has advised screen time is best avoided for the first two years of life. But what evidence is there behind this advice? Jenni speaks to Sarah Jarvis, GP and Clinical Director of Patient.co.uk. Presenter: Jenni Murray Producer: Laura Northedge Interviewed Guest: Melinda Gates Interviewed Guest: Josie Rourke Interviewed Guest: Kathryn Baldacchino Interviewed Guest: Kate Roberts Interviewed Guest: Elizabeth Interviewed Guest: Sarah Jarvis Photo Credit: Jason Bell for Pivotal Ventures

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0:00.0	Hello, Jenny Murray, welcoming you to Thursday's edition of The Woman's Hour podcast.
0:11.3	I am not for sale, is an advertisement on show in Nigeria to try and prevent girls and
0:17.4	women risking a life of modern slavery in Britain. The British Government is supportive,
0:23.9	will the ads work.
0:26.1	Josie Ruak is standing down from the job she's held for eight years as artistic director
0:31.0	of the Dom Mar Warehouse in London. Why has she chosen sweet charity as her swan song?
0:37.5	And as the UN says children under two should not be put in front of a television or an iPad,
0:44.0	what's the evidence of risk?
0:47.9	Melinda Gates is ranked as one of the world's most powerful women. She's married to Bill Gates,
0:52.9	the founder of Microsoft and they share a multi-billion dollar fortune. Together they founded the
1:00.7	world's largest private charitable organisation and in a book the moment of lift how empowering women
1:08.6	changes the world. She describes how important their work with women has been.
1:13.5	Before she met Bill, Melinda was something of a pioneer in the early days of computer technology.
1:19.1	She met her husband when she was employed in his company as a marketing manager. She now describes
1:25.5	herself as a feminist, which she says she would not have done 10 years ago. What changed?
1:32.7	I am definitely a passionate ardent feminist and to me a feminist means that a woman can take
1:40.0	any decision in her home, her community, her work environment. And I think what changed for me
1:47.0	was really turning the question of feminism back on myself and back on the United States.
1:54.0	And it's because as I would travel, I would meet these women who were not empowered and I'd think,
1:58.5	oh, but if she could only have this, if she could only take this decision or be financially empowered
2:04.2	or have her voice. And as I would be traveling home and turn the question back on myself in my own
2:10.6	country, I'd say, wow, women are so empowered here in the United States. And the truth is we are
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