Changing the World Through Empowerment

Humanitarian leadership focuses on improving the global environment for others and uses a platform to address the world’s most pressing issues.

In “The Moment of Lift: How Empowering Women Changes the World,” Melinda Gates discusses several humanitarian issues that are important to pay attention to. To summarize, Melinda Gates has worked on some of the greatest challenges in global health, including making vaccinations and family planning more widely accessible in the past two decades. In this novel, she focuses on the benefits of empowering women above the obstacles they face which will in turn translate into better communities for all. The overarching message is that we must lift women and young girls in order to give them the power to shape their lives. Those who do have power to make their own choices should pay it forward to their communities to help everyone lead happier and healthier lives when women have more power over their lives. When women are empowered to make their own decisions, they tend to choose things which benefit their families and communities, lifting everyone up. As Gates says herself, “sometimes all that’s needed to lift women up is to stop pulling them down.” Overall, this book made clear that Melinda Gates is doing important work right now, directing much-needed attention and resources to women’s issues on a global scale. This novel makes clear where we we stand in the fight for gender equality and how everyone can contribute to create a better future for all.