Books by Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn
Half the Sky
by Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn
Zainab Salbi says: Half the Sky is one of the few pivotal books that really changed the women’s movement from being confined to activists to something more universal. The awakening and realisation of that call is very exciting.
Mia Farrow says: In the book one of the stories is about how, if you took every girl and woman who has to walk to get water, that distance circles the whole globe. That is how their day is spent. Women in so much of the world are doing so much of the labour without having any of the rights or reaping their share of the profits, not to mention the issue of respect for women and girls. If you educate girls, women and boys then they will have a different perspective on who women are and what they are capable of.
Interviews where books by Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn were recommended
The best books on Women’s Empowerment, recommended by Zainab Salbi
Founder and CEO of Women for Women International Zainab Salbi says we need to make the 21st century the time for women’s rights, and describes how reading Rumi’s poems helps her to find inner peace
The best books on Changing the World for Good, recommended by Mia Farrow
The actress and humanitarian activist says that in any genocide 95 per cent of us are capable of being led or enticed to a tipping point where we can pick up a machete and hack to death strangers and friends alike.
