Half the Sky
Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide
About the book
Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn, a married pair of Pulitzer Prize-winning reporters, argue that the oppression of women around the world is the leading moral challenge of our time, much as abolishing slavery was for an earlier age. Traveling through Africa and Asia, they cover sex slavery and prostitution, rape, maternal mortality, genital mutilation and girls' education, through women such as a Cambodian teenager sold into a brothel and an Ethiopian woman injured in childbirth. Their case is economic as well as moral: across much of the world, women are the greatest untapped economic resource, and microcredit and schooling are among the remedies. Knopf published it in 2009, and PBS later made it into a 2012 documentary.
Emma Watson included it on the Our Shared Shelf read shelf on Goodreads, and Kapwing co-founder Julia Enthoven said it greatly changed how she sees the world.
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Julia Enthoven (Co-Founder/Kapwing)
As for non-fiction, Half the Sky (about crimes against women, especially in the developing world) and Whatever it Takes (about the Harlem Children’s Zone and the work of Geoffrey Canada) both changed my world-view enormously, and I thought they were both super compelling.
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