By Nicholas Kristof
New York Times
“Women hold up half the sky,” in the words of a Chinese saying, yet that’s mostly an aspiration: in a large slice of the world, girls are uneducated and women marginalized, and it’s not an accident that those same countries are disproportionately mired in poverty and riven by fundamentalism and chaos. There’s a growing recognition among everyone from the World Bank to the U.S. military’s Joint Chiefs of Staff to aid organizations like CARE that focusing on women and girls is the most effective way to fight global poverty and extremism. That’s why foreign aid is increasingly directed to women. The world is awakening to a powerful truth: Women and girls aren’t the problem; they’re the solution.
Read the entire article "Saving the World's Women"
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/23/magazine/23Women-t.html?_r=1
Watch the audio slideshow "A Powerful Truth"
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2009/08/20/magazine/kristof-audioss/index.html
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