Cover Feminism™ on Instagram: "Most people think Melinda French Gates was always powerful because of who she married. That’s the laziest version of her story. Before philanthropy, she was a software engineer writing code in rooms where women were treated like exceptions. Before foundations, she was fixing rental homes, raising kids, and carrying unpaid labor that never shows up on balance sheets. She’s said the hardest work she ever did was the work no one counted. The real turning point wasn’t