Melinda French Gates

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932 appearances 10 recordings 6 series first heard Feb 2026 last heard 14 Jun

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But then I just started to realize that in the U.S.,

so many women were facing issues that we really weren't tackling as a society.

And so I founded Pivotal Ventures then to really focus on women and families in the U.S.

And now I'm really broadening out that work or including in that work, I should say, women's health specifically.

Well, we have funded men's health issues for a very long time, but we have underfunded and under-researched conditions that affect women.

And so for so long, the medical community assumed the male body as the default body.

And then we would take medications and say, okay, we'll take it down by a certain amount of a dosage for a woman.

That's just not true.

A woman's body is very different than a man's.

And so we just have not funded this area.

And if we're going to accelerate progress, we really do need to fund women's health.

Well, I think you have to look at, go back in the history of the United States and the NIH and say, who was making the decisions around funding?

This is why I'm so, Pivotal's real job is how do we get women into positions of power?

so that we lift them up and they lift their families up.

When women hold positions of power, then they move funding to different things.

They have a different lens on society than a man has.

Not better, not worse, just different.

But partly in the past, men didn't see these issues that women were having.

And so they funded what they knew.

They didn't fund, say, okay, well, half the population is different.

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