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The Moment of Lift: How Empowering Women Changes the World
What do I mean by a “delivery system”? Getting tools to people who need them in ways that encourage people to use them—that is a delivery system.
from The Moment of Lift: How Empowering Women Changes the World by Melinda French Gates
Natasha Schön added 2mo ago
In Journey of the Heart, an extraordinary book on relationships, John Welwood points out what he calls “a natural balancing process” between partners. He writes: “Anything that one partner ignores, the other will feel a greater need to emphasize. Whatever quality of being I deny, such as power, softness or playfulness, my partner will find herself
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Anytime you have a category of tasks that’s considered “women’s work” that men will not share, it reinforces a false hierarchy that prevents men and women from doing productive work together. Breaking that hierarchy actually leads to men’s empowerment, because it allows men to discover the power of partnership and lets them develop their caring sid
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That’s what inclusion means—everyone is a contributor. And if they need help to become a contributor, then we should help them, because they are full members in a community that supports everyone.
from The Moment of Lift: How Empowering Women Changes the World by Melinda French Gates
Natasha Schön added 2mo ago
Encourage your friends (women and men) to seek out organizations doing excellent work on women’s empowerment. Discuss the findings, and choose one or more of these organizations to support with your time and money.
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Natasha Schön added 2mo ago
Being a feminist means believing that every woman should be able to use her voice and pursue her potential, and that women and men should all work together to take down the barriers and end the biases that still hold women back.
from The Moment of Lift: How Empowering Women Changes the World by Melinda French Gates
Natasha Schön added 2mo ago
It took us years to learn that contraceptives are the greatest life-saving, poverty-ending, women-empowering innovation ever created.
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Natasha Schön added 2mo ago
On average, women around the world spend more than twice as many hours as men on unpaid work, but the range of the disparity is wide. In India, women spend 6 hours a day doing unpaid work, while men spend less than 1. In the US, women average more than 4 hours of unpaid work every day; men average just 2.5. In Norway, women spend 3.5 hours a day on
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Natasha Schön added 2mo ago
“What do you know now in a deeper way than you knew it before?” I love this question because it honors how we learn and grow. Wisdom isn’t about accumulating more facts; it’s about understanding big truths in a deeper way.
from The Moment of Lift: How Empowering Women Changes the World by Melinda French Gates
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