- Bill Gates, the founder of Microsoft, married Melinda French in 1994. They met when Melinda came to Microsoft as a product manager.
- Today, they run the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, which has an endowment of $50.7 billion.
- Melinda Gates recently sat down with Business Insider US editor-in-chief Alyson Shontell to discuss her marriage and her new book, "The Moment of Life."
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Bill and Melinda Gates have been married 25 years, raise three kids, are worth $100.9 billion, and run a namesake philanthropic enterprise boasting a $50.7 billion endowment — but still find the time to do dishes together.
The Gates family always do the dishes after dinner together to remind their kids that home responsibilities aren't just women's work, Melinda said in a conversation with Business Insider US editor-in-chief Alyson Shontell.
The key to a strong marriage is when partners participate in household chores equally, whether that be laundry or packing lunch, Gates told Shontell. Women traditionally are seen as responsible for doing unpaid housework. When you can share that responsibility, the marriage becomes more balanced for both the man and woman.
"One thing in society we have put on women is we don't talk about how difficult it is to raise children," Gates said in the interview. "We just assume women are going to go do it. It takes time and it takes energy, right?"
Here's a look at the marriage between Bill and Melinda.
Bill and Melinda first met in 1987, when she joined Microsoft as a product manager.
Bill asked her if she could go out "two weeks from tonight" — to which Melinda replied, "Two weeks from tonight? I have no idea what I'm doing two weeks from tonight.' And I said, 'You're not spontaneous enough for me."
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Melinda gave Bill her number and told him to call her closer to the day he had in mind.
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Instead, he called her up later that night with a wry question: "Is this spontaneous enough for you?" Turns out, it was.
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