Foundation and ive been travelling for 20 years and i think one of the things that has shocked me as ive been on the ground in so many Different Countries in africa and all over the world is that abuse comes up more and more and more that if you have a conversation with women thats a real conversation so youre there to talk about their health or their children if you stay long enough theyll tell you about the abuse in their community and what i know is that abuse silences women and girls and its unacceptable so i completely agree you have to stand in your own authority stand in your integrity and we all have to fight back and it takes finding other like minded women like women just like when he said like shes changed turn her life into be an activist and it takes other male allies to there are men who are or women takes all of us standing up and saying not ok. We got this tweet from titus and we didnt get a lot of tweets like this but i think its important to show and to share because views like this are everywhere so titus says men and we women are not equal the worlds crazy we should stop deceiving ourselves the way that i treat my male pals is of the same way that i treat my female pals god created women differently with different abilities and though i believe that a person should be respected independent of gender of course he still holds that view winnie have you encountered this type of thinking and what do you do about it you have 7. Is so wrong its nonsense difference and equality should not be confused. Then a women are different but men and women should be equal the fact that they are not doesnt make it right we work to achieve an equal world and my goal which made a lot of progress the entire 20th century was a progress to was more widely to between men and women im not living the life of my grandmother who at the beginning of this century was married off at 14 to a polygamous man inherited as a widow at 24 that cant happen to me 100 years later one women have one more rights for me so we are on our journey wake up you while he is a all is a principle signed on by all governments of the United Nations and we are marching towards the fact that it isnt there now doesnt make it right and the fact that we are different men and women doesnt mean we cant be equal we are equal. So titus if youre watching when he says you are wrong and i ask you to wake up now melinda you often speak of how your personal life impacts the way you take on issues and so i want to share a clip with their audience its a humorous its a tongue in cheek clip but its an excerpt from your book which is fabulous i finished it just yesterday right before the show right on time and you talk a lot about gender equality and some of it is just the Little Things that make it necessary for other people to see the way that they can change in their own lives so i want to share with you a clip from your appearance on my next guest needs no introduction with David Letterman have a listen. Our oldest daughter jen we have 3 children she was about to go to preschool and bill and i completely agreed where we wanted her to go for preschool through 5th grade this and the school was not close to our house we were really wrestling with this and he finally said melinda i get it i will drive 2 days a week and so he started doing it and hed love the conversations with her in the car etc etc about 2 or 3 weeks into the school year couple moms kind of sidled up to me and they said do you see whats going on here in the classroom and i said well its funny i see more dads driving and they all said well we went home and said to our husbands bill gates. Im sure your husband must love that movement but how does that apply then to the work you do how does what youre doing in the home. Take on a wider scale we have to look at all of this unpaid labor that women do all over the world and our economies are built on the back of that unpaid labor and so whether its caregiving or chores some of the caregiving we want to do we want to care for our loved ones but a lot of the what we do in our homes. In the developing world its carrying water its working in the field its cooking for hours a day in the in places like United States in canada we cook we do laundry so no air in the world do men and women do an equal amount of unpaid labor in fact that gap equals 7 years of a womans life and so what i was trying to talk about there was a difficult conversation bill and i had in our own home because this is personal we have to take it we have to look at it in our whole lives we have to look at it in our workplaces and we have to look at it in our community we do more unpaid labor everywhere in that needs to change and uniting theyre winning. Of course that it can change but like many interests it is the personal level in the household agreeing to share that caring work more fairly between a man and a woman and their children but theres also a role for governments governments have an Important Role to provide this services that can liberate a woman from drudgery so that she can work and earn money so that she can be a leader in Society Governments have an Important Role especially in the provision of Public Services water in the g education child transport the most important one that is child care he says your child but the private sector also has a role to play so if we all play our roles and are able to free women from the drudgery then women can be part of the quantum and live better lives and be part of publics. Public savvis contributing us leaders picking up on what youre saying of course to play our role we need environments that are conducive to that so we got to be a comment ill direct this to you melinda because she does her name is matt her mentor shes a ph d. Candidate at Tulane University and heres what shes asking. Time money with marilyn summer and im a fulbright scholar from pakistan i love reading the book by Melinda Gates the moment of the union book mentioned how starting what places have was time that keep women out and how it times women hold themselves back and we know we cannot fix women to fit into systems that are created in designed by men so we have put forth comprising mostly of women how can we create genner Transformative Health systems in all nations that left women and close the gender gap thank you. Thats a big question melinda but part of your lifes work. Yes and i think member asked a fabulous question which is how do we make sure we have full equality in the workforce and that is you 1st have to have transparency you have to actually know what your workforce looks like you have to publish what your look were person looks like at all levels you have to publish transparency on paper because you have to have equal pay and then you have to make sure that men and women have an equal voice at the table and so i dont care whether thats in the Technology Sector or thats in the Health Sector we have to make sure that were moving forward all roles not just for men but for women to in today we dont have enough role models and we dont have enough transparency of whats going on in industry by industry because only with that transparency and that data can weed then actually make commitments and decide were going to move for differently as a society no matter where we are in the world so when it comes to role models julie ever bring you in on the phone where the connection is a little bit better and stronger we got this comment for you on twitter this is dr rhonda and she says you are one of the greatest female m. P. s she says what kept you so strong in the face of the horrendous massage and a you experienced whilst Prime Minister and so for our audience that is not tamil youre with some of the vitriol that you did face i want to share with them a clip though this is from several years ago of course but in it it shows just a taste of some of the things that you have to go through this is you in an infamous speech now in parliament in 2012 addressing the massage me of one of your colleagues for those of you who may not remember the moment heres a clip. I will not be lectured about 6 ism and a soldier named by these men i was 6 a kid and that was and the sergeant a by this man not now not ever the leader of the opposition says that people who hold sexist fuse and im the login is not appropriate for high office well i hope the leader of the opposition has got a piece of paper and he is writing out his receipt and maybe even wants to know i want a massage and he looks like the more you know strike he doesnt need a motion in the house of representatives from a name thanks for being a. Truly a power suit powerful words so round on twitter saying what can be so strong how did you keep going. Think thank you for the question and i guess 3 quick things kept me going of course the support of family and friends and colleagues matters to everything beyond that i think its very important to be clear about what you say to see what is. Going even when the going is tough to know exactly what it is that youre trying to do. To write them on the shade of what i want to the government that i lead and on the toughest to get that increasingly crumpled pays the piper at the bottom of my handbag and read it again and stating they. Think its really important and. Of course we should all be open to the constructive criticism interact with and who care about us and they want us to be in a bit of. A. Much toxicity at their own social in the traditional media and i think its very important for women to know. That feeling bad about you on the. Social media bad headlines if youre in the public school. And because of the things that you worked on we got this tweet a follow up from dr radha who says within a Hung ParliamentJulia Gallard delivered more legislation than any previous she disrupted the power disparity in Disability Services and launched a Royal Commission into child abuse that revealed the truth about institutional abuses just lifting listing off some of your accomplishments there but i want to move on to this tweet we got from someone who asked more direct question they say they want you to talk about female Education Empowerment programs because many females around the world especially in western Eastern Africa they say are illiterate most of the females are usually denied human rights and thats the wording of this week here to talk about education because i know that that is your mission right now. Right now and sorry for the wild waving around at the sand weve just had a few technical problems but i think were up and running i have the right on our of sharing the global issue for education and so where. Boys and girls but when we look who we now would use most likely to miss out on schooling now ease we want to make sure that every child gets a great education and special measures have to be engaged in to reach the poorest and most marginalised but we know from the 67 countries we work in we can make a difference weve saying leafs in Promise School completion rights now in secondary school were saying leafs in quality things like School Feeding programs can make a big difference attracting goes to school their families bankrupted to send them having fame out his makes a difference having basic things like cemetery facilities looks like we might have just lost the connection again with Julia Gillard but we will work to get it back shes coming to us from vancouver so were going to hope that that gets a little stronger in the next couple minutes but i want to pivot here to this week from merriam da here she says i join the leadership in Health System in my country but i was the 1st in my area no woman inspired my journey and supported me i wish that i could find them im still struggling but my own in a male dominated field so miriam is a doctor and she sent us a video comment and is directing it to you winning so have a listen to this comment now unfortunately the Audio Quality was not the best so we had the voice over her comment but heres what she says. And me. I started my journey in advocacy when i was going to the level of leadership and going to the Decision Making positions i couldnt find any women who were ahead of me so the main question is why dont we have role models why dont we have networks thats a poor young junior leaders who are coming up and wanting to change as well why arent we supporting each other as we were unprepared and i think thats why were not supporting her performance or shes asking for support 20. Magni. I can see that you are a young woman with agency your a doctor i presume youre a medical doctor you say that you have been a 1st several times a connect was a fuss the couple of times but i dont talk to the about talk about being 1st because i think being 1st itself speaks a sad story that no other women have had the chance to be there not because they didnt have the ability but they didnt they had left opportunity to break a barrier so you have the agency you would do it you will build and there to walk you brink other women around you and you offer to support others thats the way it works if youre a where to sit and wait to see. You know to for changed up to know change would happen ross us court to sutton that sparked the Civil Rights Movement didnt wait for another woman to get on that bus she did it ok youve been a 1st you know more 1st for women by bringing them around yourself and offering to mentor those with less opportunity than you thats the way i see it so when you speak of black in opportunities and lacking agency although that video commenter did not we got another comment from someone and she says there is one field in particular and in her eyes its