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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It should be, hey, this is a natural transition, and let's make sure everybody's trained to help women through this time.
Well, I look at...
are women at all places in society.
Like for me, the goal of Pivotal is to lift women up and lift families up.
And women are predominantly the ones that help lift their families up, right?
And so if the investments that Pivotal and our partners and others that I can crowd in, if we start to see true progress, like so for instance, I measure how many women are in state legislatures.
All of those seats in state legislatures
You know, women are half the population.
We don't have half the seats in the state legislatures yet.
So I am working on getting more and more women up and into state legislatures.
And guess what?
That will feed the Hill.
That will feed Congress.
When you get more women in the halls of Congress, we will make different policies that I believe and that I'm seeing at the state level will be more family friendly.
Things like paid family medical leave.
that people need to take care of their elderly parents or to take care of the babies when they're born.
So when I see more women in state legislatures at the highest places in politics and getting close to equal or more women CEOs or more women's businesses being funded, that's when I know we're having success that we got the flywheel started and we're getting women along the way.
I would fund policy work.
And I do fund policy work.
So I have funded a number of organizations who worked very, very hard, many partners, to get a paid family medical leave policy at the federal level.
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