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Half the Sky - Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide (Hardcover)
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Half the Sky - Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide (Hardcover)
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From two of our most fiercely moral voices, a passionate call to
arms against our era's most pervasive human rights violation: the
oppression of women and girls in the developing world.
With Pulitzer Prize winners Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn
as our guides, we undertake an odyssey through Africa and Asia to
meet the extraordinary women struggling there, among them a
Cambodian teenager sold into sex slavery and an Ethiopian woman who
suffered devastating injuries in childbirth. Drawing on the breadth
of their combined reporting experience, Kristof and WuDunn depict
our world with anger, sadness, clarity, and, ultimately, hope.
They show how a little help can transform the lives of women and
girls abroad. That Cambodian girl eventually escaped from her
brothel and, with assistance from an aid group, built a thriving
retail business that supports her family. The Ethiopian woman had
her injuries repaired and in time became a surgeon. A Zimbabwean
mother of five, counseled to return to school, earned her doctorate
and became an expert on AIDS.
Through these stories, Kristof and WuDunn help us see that the key
to economic progress lies in unleashing women's potential. They
make clear how so many people have helped to do just that, and how
we can each do our part. Throughout much of the world, the greatest
unexploited economic resource is the female half of the population.
Countries such as China have prospered precisely because they
emancipated women and brought them into the formal economy.
Unleashing that process globally is not only the right thing to do;
it's also the best strategy for fighting poverty.
Deeply felt, pragmatic, and inspirational, "Half the Sky" is
essential reading for every global citizen.
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