Saving the world's women

[Cataboo]

New York times has a good section on saving the world's women:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/23/ma...ewanted=1&_r=1

"The liberation of women could help solve many of the world’s problems, from poverty to child mortality to terrorism."

"Yet if the injustices that women in poor countries suffer are of paramount importance, in an economic and geopolitical sense the opportunity they represent is even greater. “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."

[dianne_1234]

Thank you. Very moving article.

[crazycanuck]

*beats head against desk*

How much money did they spend on figuring this one out? Also, how long did it take global leaders to come to this conclusion? Wait for it..one more..how many women/young women died whilst they were coming to this conclusion?

Yep, a bit jaded...ugh..

[Cataboo]

*beats head against desk*

How much money did they spend on figuring this one out? Also, how long did it take global leaders to come to this conclusion? Wait for it..one more..how many women/young women died whilst they were coming to this conclusion?

Yep, a bit jaded...ugh..

Well, they were men

[graceomalley]

Catriona, thank you so much for posting this. I have thought about this for a long time (years) and recently have been searching for an organization whose goal was purely to help women.

It's funny how you start looking for something and very soon afterwrad you find it, sometimes in the most unexpected places.

[Biciclista]

I read that article yesterday. I loved the part about how that woman whose husband beat her daily; now she bosses him around and he's decided that daughters are as good as sons.

[Cataboo]

Catriona, thank you so much for posting this. I have thought about this for a long time (years) and recently have been searching for an organization whose goal was purely to help women.

It's funny how you start looking for something and very soon afterwrad you find it, sometimes in the most unexpected places.

There's actually a series of articles. One of which talks about the rise in philanthropy by women for women's causes:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/23/ma...ob-wwln-t.html

[Cataboo]

I read that article yesterday. I loved the part about how that woman whose husband beat her daily; now she bosses him around and he's decided that daughters are as good as sons.

It's somewhat humbling to read what all those women overcame to accomplish what they did/do - and erm, yeah, I haven't had that much to overcome and haven't accomplished all that much.