Sheryl WuDunn: Our century’s greatest injustice
Sheryl WuDunn’s book “Half the Sky” investigates the oppression of women globally. Her stories shock. Only when women in developing countries have equal access to education and economic opportunity will we be using all our human resources.
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ABOUT Sheryl WuDunn
“Sheryl WuDunn and her husband, Nick Kristof, won a Pulitzer for their New York Times coverage of the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests. Their joint reporting work in China and other developing nations convinced them both that, just as slavery was the moral issue of the 19th century, sex trafficking, gender-based violence and other abuses make women’s rights the moral issue of the 21st.
In their book Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide, Sheryl and Nick make the case for empowering women as a means of development. Women tend to spend more on education, nutrition and business, the economic engines of growth in a community.
If we can find ways to develop the untapped potential of the millions of women who are now left uneducated, denied basic rights, oppressed and threatened we’ll turn on a fire hose of economic power that could transform the developing world.”
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