Episode 63: The Moment of Lift: How Empowering Women Changes the World, by Melinda French Gates
“Outrage can save one girl or two, she told me. Only empathy can change the system.”
“Outrage can save one girl or two, she told me. Only empathy can change the system.”
“There is no such thing as a woman who doesn’t work. There is only a woman who isn’t paid”
“Women in power are seen as…taking something to which they are not quite entitled.”
“Removing stereotype threat can improve both men’s and women’s academic achievement.”
“…girls learn to suppress their own feelings in order to avoid conflict, to preserve the peace…”
“the single best indicator that an unmarried middle-class woman will end up bankrupt.”
“women fight wars on two fronts, one for…the putative topic…and one simply for the right to speak”
“to recognize misogyny in so many forms, some great and some small, and know you’re not imagining things.”
“Females were as socialized to believe sexist thinking and values as males…”
“…every man’s standing…is enhanced by the male monopoly over authority in patriarchal societies.”