As Melinda French Gates leaves the Gates Foundation, many hope she'll double down on gender equity
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Melinda French Gates is already one of the biggest philanthropic supporters of gender equity in the United States and is now poised to put another $12.5 billion toward intractable problems like closing the gender pay gap and increasing women's political participation, her grantees hope.