An audience with Melinda Gates: Empowerment, careers and society - a podcast by BBC Radio 5 live

5 Live's Laura Whitmore meets Melinda Gates - one of the world’s most powerful women.

She’s a former general manager at Microsoft, co chair of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, a philanthropist who has helped award grants worth more than 50 billion US dollars to organisations and individuals in 139 countries.We invited an audience of women along to speak to her - all with their own inspirational stories.

They spoke about careers, equality, family, society, charity work and much more.

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