Bill and Melinda Gates to divorce after 27 years

“I chose to write my story so that hopefully people and women and men could relate to me and understand that yes, these issues exist in every single marriage,” she told NPR’s Michel Martin in 2019. As part of her effort “to start tackling these inequities for women and the barriers in the United States,” she established an office called Pivotal Ventures, which is separate from the foundation, she said.