Melinda Gates

... a country with widespread insecurity, violence and rabid corruptions, as popularly portrayed in International media. Consequently, we may be well served, therefore, with their clear commitment to our people's welfare, to formalize Bill and Melinda Gates appointment as Goodwill Ambassadors for Nigeria.

The workforce of the future will look very different from that of today. According to research from McKinsey, nearly one-third of U.S. workers will need to find new jobs by 2030 in response to automation and rapid advancements in technology. However, billionaire philanthropist Melinda Gates says these stats ...

Melinda Gate, co-founder of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images for Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Melinda Gates is the co-founder and co-chair of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the largest private foundation in the United States. With more than $40 billion in ...

At SXSW, alum Melinda Gates: 'What you can do is insist on equality in the workplace' ... In conversation with three other female leaders in entrepreneurship, entertainment and media at the SXSW conference March 11, Melinda Gates highlighted the gap between the workforce and the workplace.

Melinda Gates knows what it's like to enter a room with her husband, Bill, and have the eyes and the conversation shift to him. That used to happen routinely early on in the 53-year-old Dallas native's role as co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. But in recent years, she's taken on a more visible, ...

When Melinda Gates was hired at Microsoft, she was the only woman in her hiring class. During orientation, a new colleague picked a fight with a vp at the company—Gates later learned that colleague had been advised to be more aggressive—and that moment, which Gates shared during her keynote at ...

In the past 30 years, Melinda Gates has become one of the most influential women in the business and technology worlds, building her brand successfully in those male-dominated industries. Now, she's trying to teach others how to do the same. Speaking at a South by Southwest keynote on Sunday, Gates ...

According to the op-ed, the donation will fund a three-pronged approach to economically empowering women: First, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation will support and organize female farmers so they can sell their products at competitive prices; Second, the foundation will work in eight countries, ...

Melinda Gates kicked off 2018 by proclaiming "it's time for a new era for women" in a Time magazine op-ed. Today, she shared her plans to help empower women around the world. "With a new focus on women's economic empowerment, connecting women to markets, making sure they have access to ...

I have spent many hours talking with colleagues in international development about how to tear down the barriers that block women's progress around the world. Now, we're confronting the fact that every sector, including our own, has a serious problem with sexual harassment and violence. The norms that ...