SEATTLE (AP) – look back to his time as one of the early employees of Microsoft, Melinda Gates said that inhospitable culture popularly-dura and revolutionary technology company made her want to give, but not she discussed it with her boyfriend and I then spouse, Bill Gates, the executive director of the company who embodied that culture.” It was not my work do it at the time”, said Gates in an interview with The Associated Press, adding it traced”strict limits”between office and home to work there nine years before retiring to have children. His new book of memoirs “The Moment of Lift” is a manifesto about women and power from the perspective of the exejecutiva of technology business, feminist sympathizer and frank public of the #MeToo movement. The Associated Press reviewed a copy of the book, prior to its publication on Tuesday, whose profits will be donated to charities in its entirety. What not narrated in the book is how his relationship with Bill Gates affected their experience at Microsoft. He said that it is difficult to go 30 years ago to say how things would be today different if he had tried to conquer an employee in the workplace, when the company was about 1% of its current size.
“It is impossible to project how that was different,” he said. He didn’t say in the interview if he came to doubt a relationship with the CEO of your company. The book covers from his life as a girl in a Catholic from Texas school, until it became a youth leader of technology at Microsoft, their private struggles as the spouse of a public icon and homemaker with three children, until he found his professional purpose such as u advocate women’s na through venture capital and philanthropy. With donations amounting to 50,000 million dollars, the Foundation, Bill and Melinda Gates, based in Seattle, is the world’s largest private foundation. Much of its resources are earmarked for health and global development, which inspired many academic interpretations of the problems of poverty in the world comprising the greater part of the book. The text, illustrated with vivid and heartbreaking anecdotes about how these problems cause death and suffering, it is narrated from his extraordinary position as one of the richest people in the world. And it is also partly the biography of a celebrity. He conquered the heart of Bill Gates after having a working dinner, share their mutual love of puzzles and defeat it in a mathematical game. They enrolled their children in the school under her maiden name, “French”, to give them anonymity. At a time where he was still discovering how gender roles had rooted, he offered to take their children to school, which influenced to other parents to take on that task. In terms of women and power, Gates summed up his agenda to fight poverty in under-developed nations and the evolution of a proud reluctant feminist advocating for equality in the workplace in the United States after an extensive positive experience but often frustrating in Microsoft.Melinda Gates said he has learned to adapt to be herself despite the abrasive Microsoft style because he loved his job while he was there in the decades of 1980 and 90. He said that he hired some of the best company’s employees that liked most friendly leadership style. It also describes how the couple has evolved to become more and more equitable since the Board created the Foundation in 2000. “She gives Gates feedback frequently and is firm in how to create a culture of collaboration in its powerful non-profit organization.” Bill and I are equal partners,”said Melinda Gates. “Men and women should be equal at work”.
