《The Moment of Lift》（中文名：提升时刻），多位《纽约时报》畅销书作家力荐！
福布斯世界影响力第三女性，比尔与梅琳达·盖茨 基金会（Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation）共同主席Melinda Gates首部作品！
“我们如何创造提升人类的契机，尤其是女性们？因为当女性的地位获得提升，就能提升人性。”
过去二十年来，Melinda Gates致力于为世界各地的人找出他们所面临的*迫切的问题的解决之道。在这段过程中，Melinda心中有个念头越发明晰：停止打压女性，才能想让社会向上迈进。
Melinda走遍世界，碰上许多身具启发故事的人们，并将其书写于本书之中。如她所写：“我写这本书的宗旨便在于分享这些让我更看清楚自己生命首要意义的故事，我希望能让大家了解，无论我们身处何方，我们都能够找出提高女性人权的方式。”
举凡孩童婚姻、节育管道不全，乃至工作场合性别不平等等急需被大众注意的议题，都在Melinda的笔下扣人心弦地呈现。此外，Melinda*与读者分享她的私人生活，以及她如何在自己的婚姻中步向平权。从中，她*我们了解到，我们改变世界、改自己的机会何以受限。
Melinda以真挚动人的笔触，道出许许多多伟大女性背后的故事，以及人与人之间的连结所激荡出的火花是多么璀璨又具启发性。一本回应时代需求的作品，号召所有人为提升女性权力而行动！
A debut from Forbes’ third most powerful woman in the world, Melinda Gates, a timely and necessary call to action for women’s empowerment.
For the last twenty years, Melinda Gates has been on a mission. Her goal, as co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, has been to find solutions for people with the most urgent needs, wherever they live. Throughout this journey, one thing has become increasingly clear to her: If you want to lift a society up, invest in women.
In this candid and inspiring book, Gates traces her awakening to the link between women’s empowerment and the health of societies. She shows some of the tremendous opportunities that exist right now to “turbo-charge” change. And she provides simple and effective ways each one of us can make a difference.
Convinced that all women should be free to decide whether and when to have children, Gates took her first step onto the global stage to make a stand for family planning. That step launched her into further efforts: to ensure women everywhere have access to every kind of job; to encourage men around the globe to share equally in the burdens of household work; to advocate for paid family leave for everyone; to eliminate gender bias in all its forms.
Throughout, Gates introduces us to her heroes in the movement towards equality, offers startling data, shares moving conversations she’s had with women from all over the world–and shows how we can all get involved.
A personal statement of passionate conviction, this book tells of Gates’ journey from a partner working behind the scenes to one of the world’s foremost advocates for women, driven by the belief that no one should be excluded, all lives have equal value, and gender equity is the lever that lifts everything.
