{"id":130878,"date":"2024-05-29T09:15:19","date_gmt":"2024-05-29T06:15:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/melinda-french-gates-to-donate-1bn-in-womens-rights\/"},"modified":"2024-05-29T09:15:19","modified_gmt":"2024-05-29T06:15:19","slug":"melinda-french-gates-to-donate-1bn-in-womens-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/news\/melinda-french-gates-to-donate-1bn-in-womens-rights\/","title":{"rendered":"Melinda French Gates to donate $1bn in women\u2019s rights"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mp_wrapper\">\n  <div class=\"mepr-unauthorized-message\">\n    <p>You are unauthorized to view this page.<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"mepr-login-form-wrap\">\n            \n<div class=\"mp_wrapper mp_login_form\">\n                  <!-- mp-login-form-start -->     <form name=\"mepr_loginform\" id=\"mepr_loginform\" class=\"mepr-form\" action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/\" method=\"post\" data-trp-original-action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/\">\n            <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_username\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n                              <label for=\"user_login\">Username<\/label>\n        <\/div>\n        <input type=\"text\" name=\"log\" id=\"user_login\" value=\"\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_password\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n          <label for=\"user_pass\">Password<\/label>\n          <div class=\"mp-hide-pw\">\n            <input type=\"password\" name=\"pwd\" id=\"user_pass\" value=\"\" \/>\n            <button type=\"button\" class=\"button mp-hide-pw hide-if-no-js\" data-toggle=\"0\" aria-label=\"Show password\">\n              <span class=\"dashicons dashicons-visibility\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n            <\/button>\n          <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n            <div>\n        <label><input name=\"rememberme\" type=\"checkbox\" id=\"rememberme\" value=\"forever\" \/> Remember Me<\/label>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n      <div class=\"submit\">\n        <input type=\"submit\" name=\"wp-submit\" id=\"wp-submit\" class=\"button-primary mepr-share-button\" value=\"Log In\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"redirect_to\" value=\"\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130878\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_process_login_form\" value=\"true\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_is_login_page\" value=\"false\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n    <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"trp-form-language\" value=\"en\"\/><\/form>\n    <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n    <div class=\"mepr-login-actions\">\n        <a\n          href=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/?action=forgot_password\"\n          title=\"Click here to reset your password\"\n        >\n          Forgot Password        <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n\n      \n    <!-- mp-login-form-end --> \n  <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"smart_content_wrapper\">\n<p>Billionaire philanthropist Melinda French Gates announced Tuesday that she is committing $1 billion (\u00a3782.4m) over the next two years to women\u2019s causes and gender equity around the world. About $200 million (\u00a3157m) will go to organisations fighting for gender and reproductive rights in the US. In a New York Times guest essay, Ms French Gates said she felt compelled to support US reproductive rights following the 2022 Supreme Court decision that overturned the constitutional right to an abortion.<\/p>\n<p>The annonucement comes two weeks after Ms French Gates said she would step back from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the philanthropic powerhouse she co-founded with her former husband, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates. The money will be distributed through her company, Pivotal Ventures, through 2026.<\/p>\n<p>Ms French Gates plans to give $20m (\u00a316m) to a \u201cdiverse group of 12 global leaders\u201d to distribute to organisations of their choice before the end of 2026. The company said it will set aside another $250 million (\u00a3196m) in the autumn to global organisations focused on women\u2019s mental and physical health. Ms French Gates said she chose the first grant recipients working in the US to \u201c&#8217;rotect the rights of women and advance their power and influence&#8217;. \u201cWhen we allow this cause to go so chronically underfunded, we all pay the cost,\u201d she wrote in the New York Times. \u201cAs shocking as it is to contemplate, my 1-year-old granddaughter may grow up with fewer rights than I had.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>One grant recipient is the Center for Reproductive Rights, which advocates for abortion rights and currently represents 50 women in lawsuits challenging abortion restrictions and other reproductive health measures in several states. Joung-ah Ghedini-Williams, the Center&#8217;s chief communications and marketing officer, said the money is needed now more than ever.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe attention and the public debate about reproductive rights and abortion is greater than ever,\u201d Ms Ghedini-Williams said. \u201cThat\u2019s not necessarily being reflected in donations, which is why this is so wonderful right now, when we need to continue fueling this fight.\u201d Other recipients include MomsRising, an organisation to support women\u2019s economic security; the National Women\u2019s Law Center, which focuses on law as a means to improve gender equity; and The 19th, a nonprofit media outlet dedicated to gender and policy news.<\/p>\n<p>The National Domestic Workers Alliance, which advocates for millions of nannies, housecleaners, home-care workers and others in the US, also received a grant. The flexible terms and multi-year security the grant provides are a significant help to the group, but the message it sends is even more important, said Ai-jen Poo, president of the organisation. \u201cBoldly resourcing women forces the question of, \u2018why haven\u2019t we done this before?\u2019\u201d she said. \u201cIt&#8217;s long overdue when women are more than half the workforce, half the electorate and doing 70% of the care work in our communities and our families.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/cjqqw2nwv5do\">BBC<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/vaufien\/melinda-french-gates-to-donate-1bn-in-womens-rights\/\">Melinda French Gates to donate $1bn in women\u2019s rights<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\">Vastuullisuusuutiset.fi<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1070,14726,606,607,608,8971],"class_list":["post-130878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-donate","tag-melinda-french-gates","tag-vau_viikkokatsaus","tag-vauen","tag-vaufien","tag-women-rights"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130878\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}