Half the Sky:

Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women” is a moving collection of stories by Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn about girls and women struggling in poor developing countries across Africa and Asia for equality. A couple of quotes:

“More girls were killed in the last 50 years, precisely because they were girls, than men killed in all the wars in the 20th century.”

“The equivalent of 5 jumbo jets worth of women die in labour each day … life time risk of maternal death is 1,000x higher in a poor country than in the west. That should be an international scandal”.

The wooden beams on our patio seemed to be holding up the sky today and I remembered this courageous book by spouses Kristof and WuDunn for this terrific literary challenge on Mono Monday.