Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide

Hardcover Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide by Nicholas D. Kristof & Sheryl WuDunn Pulitzer Prize winners Nicholas D. Kristof & Sheryl WuDunn as our guides we undertake an odyssey through Africa & Asia to meet extraordinary women struggling there, among them a Cambodian teenager sold into sex slavery & Ethiopian woman who suffered devastating injuries in childbirth. Drawing on the breadth of their reporting experience, Kristof & WuDunn depict our world with anger, sadness, clarity, & ultimately hope. They show how a little help can transform the lives of women & girls abroad. That Cambodian girl eventually escaped from her brothel & with assistance from an aid group built a thriving retail business that supports her family. The Ethiopian woman had her injuries repaired & in time became a surgeon. A Zimbabwean mother of five counseled to return to school earned her doctorate & became an expert on AIDS. Through these stories Kristof & 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 & 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 & brought them into the formal economy.