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From two of our most fiercely moral voices, a passionate call to forearms against our period’s most pervasive human protection under the law violation: the oppression of women and young girls in the expanding world.
With Pulitzer Award winners Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn as our courses, we carry out an odyssey through Africa and Asia to meet the extraordinary women battling there, among them a Cambodian teenager sold into making love slavery and an Ethiopian woman who suffered devastating incidents in childbirth. Pulling on the breadth with their combined reporting experience, Kristof and WuDunn depict the world with anger, sadness, quality, and, ultimately, anticipation.
They show what sort of little help can enhance the lives of women and young girls in foreign countries. That Cambodian gal eventually escaped from her brothel and, with assistance from an aid group, built a growing retail business that helps her family. The Ethiopian woman had her incidents repaired and in time became a plastic surgeon. A Zimbabwean mom of five, counseled to return to school, received her doctorate and became a specialist on AIDS.
Through these stories, Kristof and WuDunn help us observe that the key to economic progress lies in unleashing women’s potential. They explain how so many people have helped to do that, and how we can each do our part. Throughout much of the world, the best unexploited economic source of information is the feminine half of the population. Countries such as China have prospered accurately because they emancipated women and brought them in to the formal economy. Unleashing that process internationally is not only the right thing to do; it’s also the best strategy for fighting poverty.
Deeply noticed, pragmatic, and inspirational, Half the Sky is vital reading for each and every global citizen.
