Half the sky turning oppression into opportunity for women worldwide
Two Pulitzer Prize winners issue a call to arms against our era's most pervasive human rights violation: the oppression of women in the developing world. They show that a little help can transform the lives of women and girls abroad and that the key to economic progress lies in unleashing women's po...
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New York :
Alfred A. Knopf,
2009.
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Table of Contents:
- 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
- Appendix. Organizations supporting women.
