TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kristof,Nicholas D
AU  - WuDunn,Sheryl
TI  - Half the sky: turning oppression into opportunity for women worldwide
SN  - 0307267148
U1  - 362.83091724 22
PY  - 2009///
CY  - New York
PB  - Alfred A. Knopf
KW  - Women
KW  - Crimes against
KW  - Developing countries
KW  - Case studies
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - Women's rights
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 259-278) and index; 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
N2  - 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 potential
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