Half The Sky: How To Change The World

 By: ryan    2:47 PM  Books, Nicholas D. Kristof, Sheryl Wudunn   1 comment

Title: Half The Sky: How To Change The World
Author: Nicholas D. Kristof & Sheryl Wudunn
Publisher: Virago
ISBN: 9781844086825

Back Cover text
A Call To Arms Against The Most Shocking And Widespread Human-Rights Violation Of Our Age

• In The Nineteenth Century The Central Moral Challenge We Faced Was Slavery
• In The Twentieth Century It Was The Battle Against Totalitarianism
• In The Twenty-First Century It Is The Struggle For Equality For Women And Their Daughters Around The World.

Half the Sky, the groundbreaking bestseller, takes us on a journey through Africa and Asia to meet an array of extraordinary women. There is Rath in Cambodia, who escaped from the brothel she had been sold into and now runs a thriving retail business that supports her family. There is Mamitu, who grew up without an education in a remote village in Ethiopia and now trains surgeons in Addis Ababa. And there are countless others amazing women who have overcome unimaginable hurdles in order to change the world.

How do we tackle poverty, disease and conflict? Half the Sky shows that women are the solution. As the chief economist of the World Bank once wrote: "Investment in girls education may well be the highest-return investment available in the developing world."

Fierce, pragmatic, full of inspiring stories of courage and determination, Half the Sky is essential reading for every one of us, whichever our gender, wherever we live. 

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Half the Sky is a book about women. This book will definitely change the way that you think about girls, women and ladies around the world. The books comes in many true encounters from girls around Africa and Asia that been through incredible, evil tortures, discrimination and great injustice that you will never had imagined. 

You will read about kidnapping, human trafficking, raped, honor killing, slaves and genital cuttings. Hearing all these unwanted and unbearable suffering already make you uneasy. The authors also point out oppression of women not merely originate from men and women play great roles in a country's economic. The author also create awareness of women's right and make leaders note the importance of bringing gender-quality to ensure better development. 

This is one of the great books I have read. This book really changes my views and an eye-opening.
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