French Gates announced the pledge as her first venture after leaving the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
Melinda French Gates announced Tuesday she plans to donate $1 billion over the next two years amid a"new chapter" in her philanthropy. But who will the funds go to? Women, families and reproductive rights, French Gates said.
She expressed in her op-ed the"frustrating and shortsighted" standing women and girls have in the"global agenda," saying she's learned in her nearly two decades of advocacy that"there will always be people who say it's not the right time to talk about gender equality." It's unclear where that statistic is from, but the University of Indiana reported a similar one in October. Its report said that although charitable donations to women's and girls' organizations increased 9.2% from 2019 to 2020, it represented less than 2% of all giving in the nation that year.
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