Half The Sky Essay

With Pulitzer Prize winners Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn be great authors who give us true stories of girls and muliebrity from Africa and Asia and their extraordinary struggles. We encounter the Cambodian teenager sold into sex slavery and an Ethiopian woman who suffered devastating injuries in childbirth. Drawing on the breadth of their combined reportage experience, Kristof and WuDunn view our world with anger, sadness, clarity, and, ultimately, hope. Through these stories, Kristof and WuDunn help us see that the unwrap to economic progress lies in unleashing womens potential. They make clear how so many people defecate helped to do just that, and how we can for each one do our part. In much of the world, the greatest unemployed economic preference is the female half of the population. Countries such as China have prospered simply because they emancipated women and brought them into the formal economy.Realistic, and inspirational, this book is essential reading fo r everyone. They tell of an prove to help a woman dying in childbirth in an African hospital, and the institutional, social, and financial problems that block efforts. They discuss how their support for legalization of harlotry was undercut by the more sordid reality they discovered tail assembly the apparent success of just such a legal order in India (in Kolkata), and examine how legalization of prostitution in the Netherlands compares as an anti-trafficking technique with the criminalization of sex-service purchases in Sweden.They point out how the campaign against female circumcision has been curry back by the campaigners use of terminology (female genital mutilation) that dark the people they wanted to help against them. Kristof and WuDunn emphasis how important it is for individuals speaking up and resisting alone its here that their proposals (or, at least, their exhortations) seem questionable. (Mukhtar Mai) name we have heard before, Usha Narayane, and Sunitha Krishn an are clearly remarkable women, and deserve every support, but it is also true that they are very brave, and driven individualsand lucky, because of their risk.