“We all need to step up, even if you’ve never thought of yourself as an advocate. “Demand for gender equality is growing louder and coming from all over the world,” Gates said. It’s also a call to action that shows how to improve women’s lives on both the macro and micro levels, from ensuring access to education and contraceptives to economic opportunity and equality in marriage. As women are “lifted up,” the world follows, the book claims. Gates’s new book The Moment of Lift: How Empowering Women Changes the World (Flatiron Books/Macmillan, 2019) offers raw data and touching anecdotes to demonstrate that women’s prosperity and health are intrinsically linked to the health and prosperity of the world at large. Gates spoke to ALA Midwinter attendees not as a philanthropist, however, but as an author. Gates’s dedication to libraries was further cemented when it was revealed at the beginning of her talk that she will serve as honorary chair of National Library Week, April 7–13, in 2019. The Gates Library Foundation, which closed in 2018, provided more than $1 billion to libraries around the world over the course of 21 years. Her admiration for libraries is well documented: As cochair of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, she has been at the forefront of philanthropic funding for libraries. Melinda Gates opened her talk at the 2019 American Library Association’s (ALA) Midwinter Meeting in Seattle January 25 with effusive praise for her hosts.
Melinda Gates and Nancy Pearl at the ALA Midwinter Meeting in Seattle.
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