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A Skype Book Club Session WITH MELINDA GATES

YOUR BOOK CLUB COULD WIN A SKYPE WITH MELINDA GATES

The New York Times bestselling book from Melinda Gates,The Moment of Lift, raises important, timely and necessary questions about equality in the home, the work place, and our communities. Through personal stories, inspirational lessons, and startling data, Melinda shows there has never been a greater opportunity to work together to accelerate progress.

Now, you can discuss all of the pressing issues of The Moment of Lift with Melinda herself! TWO (2) lucky book clubs will have a chance to win a Skype conversation with Melinda Gates on March 10. More details will be shared when the winners are chosen. Simply enter the form for your chance to win a discussion of a lifetime.

Here is how to enter:

Complete the social media component of the Sweepstakes on Instagram or Twitter, by including a sentence about why you're excited about The Moment of Lift, as well as the hashtags: #MomentofLiftBookClub and #Sweepstakes.
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Book Club Discussion Guide:

1. In the Introduction, Melinda shares stories from her life—watching Apollo launches as a child, and, as a mom, taking off on airplanes with her family— that in part inspired the title of the book. How has she maintained the sense of wonder and curiosity she felt as a child in her work as a philanthropist? Can you recall any moments in your own life that elicited a similar feeling of grace and being “lifted like a scarf on the wind,” as Mark Nepo describes (2)?

2. Melinda explains that she has shared these women’s (and men’s) stories as a way to inspire us to lift each other up. In your experience, how does lift happen? Are there individuals in your life whom you feel you’ve helped to lift, in a big or small way? Who has helped lift you?

3. Each chapter of the book focuses on a central issue of gender equality, and yet taken as a whole they form a matrix of issues that support that idea that “there are no isolated problems” (16). Did you feel strongly that one issue or another was a “root” cause from which the others proliferated, or that you identified with one or two more than others? Which issue in the book is most relevant to your own life?

4. What are some of the taboos around women’s education cited in the book (e.g., Vicki Phillips in rural Kentucky) and from your own experience?

5. Melinda writes that “the most transforming force of education for women and girls is challenging the self-image of the girl who goes to school.” Did you have a teacher who helped change your self-image? How did he or she do it? What effect did it have on you?

6. Melinda speaks candidly of the way her relationship with her husband, Bill, has been impacted by her work with women internationally. Did reading about their communication give you any ideas for how you might open a dialogue between men and women in your home or workplace? What kind of education might men benefit from—Bill being an example of a man who “challenges people very hard . . . but listens and learns”—to understand how to lift up women (182)?

7. Gates cites shocking statistics about the time women spend doing unpaid work—an average of seven years more than men in a lifetime, or the equivalent of the time it would take to earn a bachelor’s and master’s degree education (118). Discuss your perspective on unpaid work done by women from your own life. Have you ever tried to reduce your unpaid work or redistribute it? What has worked for you?

8. Did you grow up with certain expectations of what was “women’s” work, and how it was valued compared to work done at an outside job? How does your current workplace and/or home value the tasks of taking care of a home and family, and where might you use your voice to make the two more compatible as Melinda describes?

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