- Melinda French Gates is highlighting the absence of family medical leave that is fully paid in the United States.
- She stated that empowering more women and people of colour would fix this problem. Fortune quoted her as saying that there are still too many men sitting on Capitol Hill in the United States.
- The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation recently found the world won’t reach gender equality until at least 2108, three generations later than previously projected.
Melinda French Gates recognizes that the US is behind other countries. Paid family medical leaveShe believes that electing more women of color and people of color will help to close the gap.
“We are the only industrialized nation without a strong paid family medical leave policy. That’s a shame.” billionaire philanthropistInterview with FortuneThis week. “But, you must be honest: There are still too many men in power on Capitol Hill in the United States.
According to a report by the, even though there is a record number, women still only make up 28% of the 117th Congress. Congressional Research Service. This Congress is one of the most racially- and ethnically diverse in recent history. However, approximately 25% of the Senate, House of Representatives and 136 of the 535 seats are held by people of color, according to the report.
This week, the Bill & Melinda Gates FoundationShe co-founded a charitable organization called. ex-husbandBill Gates is the founder of Microsoft. Publication of a ReportIt won’t be possible to find the whole world. gender equalityThree generations behind the previous projections, at least until 2108
“A lot of times, we think we think we’re going to get there on gender equality—that we might move the needle a little bit,” French Gates told Fortune. We can raise a percentage point or two to make it more female-friendly and then we feel empowered.
French Gates pointed out that Disparity in funding between male and female candidates for political office.
In the interview, she stated that women’s campaigns are not funded in the same way as men’s. That’s a huge problem.
