Author: Nicholas D. Kristof & Sheryl WuDunn
Published by: Vintage
Pages: 320 Pages
Published on : September 8, 2009
Format : E-book (Bookmate)
Started on : December 28, 2016
Finished on : January 01, 2017
Rating : 3,3 / 5 stars
Summary :
From two of our most fiercely moral voices, a passionate call to arms against our era’s most pervasive human rights violation: the oppression of women and girls in the developing world.
With Pulitzer Prize winners Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn as our guides, we undertake an odyssey through Africa and Asia to meet the extraordinary women struggling there, among them a Cambodian teenager sold into sex slavery and an Ethiopian woman who suffered devastating injuries in childbirth. Drawing on the breadth of their combined reporting experience, Kristof and WuDunn depict our world with anger, sadness, clarity, and, ultimately, hope.
They show how a little help can transform the lives of women and girls abroad. That Cambodian girl eventually escaped from her brothel and, with assistance from an aid group, built a thriving retail business that supports her family. The Ethiopian woman had her injuries repaired and in time became a surgeon. A Zimbabwean mother of five, counseled to return to school, earned her doctorate and became an expert on AIDS.
Through these stories, Kristof and WuDunn help us see that the key to economic progress lies in unleashing women’s potential. They make clear how so many people have helped to do just that, and how we can each do our part. Throughout much of the world, the greatest unexploited economic resource is the female half of the population. Countries such as China have prospered precisely because they emancipated women and brought them into the formal economy. Unleashing that process globally is not only the right thing to do; it’s also the best strategy for fighting poverty.
Deeply felt, pragmatic, and inspirational, Half the Sky is essential reading for every global citizen
With Pulitzer Prize winners Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn as our guides, we undertake an odyssey through Africa and Asia to meet the extraordinary women struggling there, among them a Cambodian teenager sold into sex slavery and an Ethiopian woman who suffered devastating injuries in childbirth. Drawing on the breadth of their combined reporting experience, Kristof and WuDunn depict our world with anger, sadness, clarity, and, ultimately, hope.
They show how a little help can transform the lives of women and girls abroad. That Cambodian girl eventually escaped from her brothel and, with assistance from an aid group, built a thriving retail business that supports her family. The Ethiopian woman had her injuries repaired and in time became a surgeon. A Zimbabwean mother of five, counseled to return to school, earned her doctorate and became an expert on AIDS.
Through these stories, Kristof and WuDunn help us see that the key to economic progress lies in unleashing women’s potential. They make clear how so many people have helped to do just that, and how we can each do our part. Throughout much of the world, the greatest unexploited economic resource is the female half of the population. Countries such as China have prospered precisely because they emancipated women and brought them into the formal economy. Unleashing that process globally is not only the right thing to do; it’s also the best strategy for fighting poverty.
Deeply felt, pragmatic, and inspirational, Half the Sky is essential reading for every global citizen
Review :
This books is so good! I even barely to breath when i know there are so many unfortunate women in the outside world. I just wanna cry when i read the story about some women in Brothels and they can't escape. There are another story about high of mortality rate for pregnant women especially in Kongo, Somalia, Ethiopia etc. Did you know some of them have small pelvis so the baby cannot out safely? The midwifes even sitting on pregnant women when the baby cannot out? WHAT THE? I really agree with the author that education and women empowerment should be increase to prevent unfortunate events in the future.
In the same time i am so proud that there are in outside world so many powerful and inspiring women that helping the other one. How she build a school to make women being more educated (somehow it is reminds me of I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban) and also the other one who builds some hospital in order to the mortality rate of pregnant women can be reduce.
Seriously, I love this books. However i can't give more stars when i read chapter nine about Is Islam is misogynistic?
"...The koran explicitly endorses some gender discrimination: A woman's testimony counts only half as much as man's, and a daughter inherits only half as much as a son"
Why the author think it is a discrimination for women having an half inheritance than a man? After marriage, Is it a woman who became a breadwinner and feeding her husband and children? Nope it is wrong. it is a man should be a breadwinner and that's why Qur'an giving more inheritance to a man.
The other thing i'm disappointed when i know This books include the story about Greg Mortenson who builds some school for Afghans. I know it is kinda incredible and superhero but did you know that books is totally fake! My heart is torn into pieces when i know everything that he wrote is totally untrue! He never being kidnapped with Taliban before and he also never build some schools for Afghans children. You can check more the validity with reading this books Three Cups of Deceit: How Greg Mortenson, Humanitarian Hero, Lost His Way by John Krakauer .
In the same time i am so proud that there are in outside world so many powerful and inspiring women that helping the other one. How she build a school to make women being more educated (somehow it is reminds me of I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban) and also the other one who builds some hospital in order to the mortality rate of pregnant women can be reduce.
Seriously, I love this books. However i can't give more stars when i read chapter nine about Is Islam is misogynistic?
"...The koran explicitly endorses some gender discrimination: A woman's testimony counts only half as much as man's, and a daughter inherits only half as much as a son"
Why the author think it is a discrimination for women having an half inheritance than a man? After marriage, Is it a woman who became a breadwinner and feeding her husband and children? Nope it is wrong. it is a man should be a breadwinner and that's why Qur'an giving more inheritance to a man.
The other thing i'm disappointed when i know This books include the story about Greg Mortenson who builds some school for Afghans. I know it is kinda incredible and superhero but did you know that books is totally fake! My heart is torn into pieces when i know everything that he wrote is totally untrue! He never being kidnapped with Taliban before and he also never build some schools for Afghans children. You can check more the validity with reading this books Three Cups of Deceit: How Greg Mortenson, Humanitarian Hero, Lost His Way by John Krakauer .
