Overview
After reading the book, The Moment of Lift answer the following questions.
1. What Gates describes as mechanisms that hold women down in poor and developing countries? Provide an example from the book to justify your answer.
2. What Gates suggests as necessary steps to empower women and girls in poor and developing countries? Provide an example from the book to justify your answer.
3. What are the roles that family planning and access to birth control plays in the decrease of poverty? Provide an example from the book to justify your answer.
4. What argument Melinda makes about child marriage?
5. Why empowering women and girls can change the world?