The Moment of Lift: How Empowering Women Changes the World

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.

“To be known without being loved is terrifying. To be loved without being known has no power to change us. But to be deeply known and deeply loved transforms us.”

Wisdom isn’t about accumulating more facts; it’s about understanding big truths in a deeper way. Year

If I ever see myself as separate or superior, if I try to lift myself up by pulling others down, if I believe people are on a journey I have completed, doing personal work I have mastered, attempting tasks I’ve accomplished—if I have any feeling that I am above them instead of trying to rise with them, then I have isolated myself from them. And I h

“If you don’t set your own agenda, somebody else will.” If I didn’t fill my schedule with things I felt were important, other people would fill my schedule with things they felt were important.

The most common factor in maternal and infant death is the lack of skilled providers. Forty million women a year give birth without assistance. We found that the best response—at least the best response we have the know-how to deliver now—is to train and deploy more skilled healthcare providers to be present for mothers at birth and in the hours an

Vishwajeet told me, “Their cup is not empty; you can’t just pour your ideas into it. Their cup is already full, so you have to understand what is in their cup.” If you don’t understand the meaning and beliefs behind a community’s practices, you won’t present your idea in the context of their values and concerns, and people won’t hear you.

To fight poverty, we have to see and study the barriers and figure out if they’re cultural, or social, or economic, or geographic, or political, and then go around them or through them so the poor aren’t cut off from benefits others enjoy.

You likely already support dozens of businesses with your spending. Do you know which of those businesses support your values? Where do they stand on promoting gender equality and diversity?