March 7, 2016 Raissa Alvero ANNOUNCEMENTS Melinda Gates: Women's Unpaid Labor Hurts Girls and Weakens Global Economy March 7, 2016 Raissa Alvero ANNOUNCEMENTS Melinda Gates weighs in on women's unpaid labor and how it hurts not only girls, women and families but the global economy as a whole in her annual letter for the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.