Among the causes Ms. French Gates will champion are those pertaining to reproductive rights in the US, which have been curtailed in a number of states following the landmark Roe v Wade decision’s overturn.
After pledging in 2019 to increase women’s power and influence over 10 years, this is her second billion-dollar commitment in the last five years.
In a guest post for The News, Ms. French Gates expressed her frustration with arguments that now is not the appropriate moment to discuss gender equality.
Everyone benefits from investing in women and girls, as demonstrated by decades of study on economics, wellbeing, and governance “said the author.
With a promise to concentrate on women and families, Ms. French Gates revealed earlier this month that she would be leaving the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
In exchange for her departure from the Gates Foundation, Bill Gates gave her a payment of $12 billion (£9.4 billion) to continue her charitable work.
She stated that she has begun providing funding to organizations in the US that defend women’s rights through her organization, Pivotal Ventures.
The awards are not designated for any particular project; rather, they are for general operations support.
