Half the Sky

by Nicholas D. Kristof

A World Health Organization study found that cutting leads to scar tissue that makes childbirth more dangerous, particularly with the more extreme forms of cutting.

“In 2007, nearly sixty-six million girls do not have access to education in communities across the world,”

The unfortunate reality is that women’s issues are marginalized, and in any case sex trafficking and mass rape should no more be seen as women’s issues than slavery was a black issue or the Holocaust was a Jewish issue.

Slavery did not exist in Britain itself, only in British territories abroad, so for the average English family slavery was out of sight. As with sex trafficking in India today,

women. One study of America’s Fortune 500 companies found that the one quarter with the most female executives had a return on equity 35 percent higher than the quarter with the fewest female executives. On the Japanese stock exchange, the companies with the highest proportion of female employees performed nearly 50 percent better than those with the lowest.

Tererai and the others were puzzled by the question, because they didn’t really have any hopes.

sigh exactly my convo with my host sister what do you mean hopes i dont know how to dream

“Self-improvement comes mainly from trying to help others.”