Half the sky [turning oppression into opportunity for women worldwide]
by Kristof, Nicholas D., 1959-
Summary
Pulitzer Prize winners Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn chronicle the struggles faced by women across the African and Asian continents. From Cambodia to Ethiopia, women are faced with a harrowing array of struggles, including rape and forced prostitution. However, some women have persevered in... Full description
- Introduction : the girl effect
- Emancipating twenty-first-century slaves
- Fighting slavery from Seattle
- Prohibition and prostitution
- Rescuing girls is the easy part
- Learning to speak up
- The new abolitionists
- Rule by rape
- Mukhtar's school
- The shame of "honor"
- "Study abroad"
- in the Congo
- Maternal mortality
- one woman a minute
- A doctor who treats countries, not patients
- Why do women die in childbirth?
- Edna's hospital
- Family planning and the "God gulf"
- Jane Roberts and her 34 million friends
- Is Islam misogynistic?
- The Afghan insurgent
- Investing in education
- Ann and Angeline
- Microcredit : the financial revolution
- A CARE package for Goretti
- The axis of equality
- Tears over Time magazine
- Grassroots vs. treetops
- Girls helping girls
- What you can do
- Four steps you can take in the next ten minutes.