Giving Compass' Take:

• In this Fast Company story, Ben Paynter highlights recent comments from Melinda Gates about her new book, "The Moment of Lift."

• Gates points out that the global female empowerment can require women to band together and for men to open their power networks to women. What sorts of coalitions and partnerships could the nonprofit sector forge to help facilitate female empowerment?

• To learn about the compounding evidence of gender inequality in STEM education, click here.

In most U.S. homes, women do about 90 minutes more unpaid labor per day than their husbands. In the developing world, it’s substantially more, although the rate varies by country. In some places, that labor can take up most of a day and, as a result, shortchange a community’s ability to make economic and social progress. [Melinda] Gates knows this because she’s seen that happen firsthand, while shadowing Maasai villagers in Tanzania to better understand the impact of gender inequality and ways to shift the imbalance. “Our economies all over the world are built on the backs of women’s unpaid labor. And so we’ve got to recognize it. We’ve got to look at how to reduce it, and we definitely have to redistribute it in our homes.”

That’s one of the core messages in Moment of Lift, Gates’s new book designed around a potentially hashtag-worthy catchphrase ... But what exactly is a #MomentOfLift? “When a woman gets her full voice and her full decision-making authority in any place–a home, her community, or her workplace–that’s a moment of lift,” Gates says. “And it often takes another person to help her, other women to band together with her. Or it takes a man to speak up on her behalf or to open his power network to her. But when other people help women move forward with their voice and their full decision-making authority, those are moments of lift.”

Read the full article about women's unpaid labor by Ben Paynter at Fast Company