Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide

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. more

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5/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Sep-21-2009; Open Your Heart; There is unimaginable pain, rage, loneliness, sadness, indignation, despair, fierceness, hope, steely determination to live, and...much happiness, expressed and experienced by the women whose stories are told here in Half the Sky....; read full review | report as inappropriate

5/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Sep-19-2009; No words can describe it; Words are inadequate to express the importance of this book. Each paragraph is wrenching, every chapter exhausting. Yet it's riveting, extremely well written, and possibly, the most important book of the decade. I wish I could convince...; read full review | report as inappropriate

5/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Sep-17-2009; AN ABSOLUTE MUST READ FOR ANYONE WHO CARES ABOUT HUMAN RIGHTS; I was able to read most of an advance copy of this book before Bill Drayton (founder of Ashoka: Innovators for the Public) snatched it away and ran off with it on his annual 2-week hiking trip to the mountains. I think this has to be the...; read full review | report as inappropriate

5/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Sep-17-2009; Moving and masterful...a lively read; This book is both brilliant and deeply inspiring. For fans of Nick Kristof, who think this may just be a compilation of his masterful New York Times columns; I can assure you that this book truly plows new ground. It demonstrates in...; read full review | report as inappropriate

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5/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Sep-21-2009; Open Your Heart; There is unimaginable pain, rage, loneliness, sadness, indignation, despair, fierceness, hope, steely determination to live, and...much happiness, expressed and experienced by the women whose stories are told here in Half the Sky....; read full review | report as inappropriate