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#19thRepresents: @MelindaGates on COVID-19 and women --> She says, women are being disproportionately burdened between child care, being 70 percent of our essential workforce and more. We need to look at policies that address these gaps in society.https://twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1BRKjYRrjXZxw …

#19thRepresents: @MelindaGates adds, "...so much of our society is built on the backs of women's unpaid labor."https://twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1BRKjYRrjXZxw …

#19thRepresents: "When I look at what's going on with race in our own country, I think, this is a time of reckoning," says @MelindaGates. She adds, we need to make change. Data shows this. We have systemic problems.https://twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1BRKjYRrjXZxw …

#19thRepresents: Cont'd. The people who know how to solve these problems are the one's that have lived this journey. They need seats at the table where policy is written in order to have true change in this country, says @MelindaGates.https://twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1BRKjYRrjXZxw …

#19thRepresents: On women in the workplace, @MelindaGates says, with most married couples, both parents work. Society hasn't caught up to that notion. We're still operating as if the man goes to work and the woman stays at home.https://twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1BRKjYRrjXZxw …

#19thRepresents: Cont'd. @MelindaGates says, until we address paid family leave, we haven't created the workplace in a way that will work for all families, single moms and single dads.https://twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1BRKjYRrjXZxw …

#19thRepresents: On if she'll be endorsing in this election cycle, @MelindaGates says, they've always been a bipartisan organization. They work with both Republicans and Democrats on the Hill. "We are about the issues...keeping people safe and healthy..."https://twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1BRKjYRrjXZxw …

#19thRepresents: "We're not going to swing the election, it's how we do the work with the people who are there," says @MelindaGates.https://twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1BRKjYRrjXZxw …