If you read one thing today this is it, “The Women’s Crusade.” No, it’s not about U.S. health care reform. It’s about something even more important, which is close to blasphemy to say these days but it’s true, because it’s about saving the world.
…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.
And if you haven’t read the interview with Sect. Clinton, take time to, but only after you’ve read the first article above.
And if you haven’t read this article, read that too, but only after you’ve read the first article above.
But by all means read this article, if you haven’t already, about the only female leader on the continent of Africa, President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf. But again, only after you’ve read the first article at the top.
Why do you think we’ve never had a female president in the United States?
I have to ask you that question. You’ve got to vote for her.
All of this in The New York Times Magazine today. Take a day off to see what’s happening around the world. It’s important.
On a different note and as an extra task, count how many women you see today on the Sunday shows. Not just on panels, but as headline guests. Experts being asked their opinion on politics and policy. One good development is that Christiane Amanpour will soon anchor her own Sunday show, which will air after GPS with Fareed Zakaria. That’s something, especially on Sunday.
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