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Half the Sky. Turning Oppression Into Opportunity for Women Worldwide. Nicholas D. Kristof, Sheryl WuDunn | 4.50 | 51,926 ratings and reviews. Recommended by Emma Watson, Zainab Salbi, Mia Farrow, and 5 others. See all reviews. Ranked #1 in Human Rights, Ranked #5 in Ethiopia — see more rankings.
Sep 8, 2008 · 54,937 ratings5,357 reviews. 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.
Sep 10, 2009 · Intelligent, revealing and important. A Pulitzer Prize–winning husband-and-wife reporter team track the growing movement to empower women in the developing world. Kristof and WuDunn ( Thunder from the East: Portrait of a Rising Asia, 2000, etc.) traveled through Africa and Southeast Asia meeting with victims of sex trafficking, forced ...
Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn have written a brilliant call to arms that describes one of the transcendent injustices in the world today—the brutal treatment of women. They take you to many countries, introduce you to extraordinary women, and tell you their moving tales.
Apr 15, 2010 · Award-winning New York Times journalists Kristof and WuDunn are optimistic that the worst aspects of gender-based inequality in much of the world will disappear, bringing us all closer to "the day when women truly hold up half the sky," according to the Chinese saying....
Feb 15, 2010 · Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn, Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2009) How can privileged women best help women who suffer some of the worst forms of oppression? By Kathleen Sheldon
The first part argues that the oppression of women in (mostly) developing countries is a devastating and under-recognized injustice that’s the equivalent of slavery, and that demands a moral and political movement as focused and principled as the campaign against slavery to bring it to an end.
