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In “Half the Sky,” Sheryl WuDunn and Nicholas Kristof add popular storytelling power to the 15-year-old international-policy argument for lifting women’s oppression. The authors call it the century’s greatest moral challenge.
A July highway accident in New York killed eight, including the daughter and three nieces of the woman at the wheel. She was apparently drunk. “Mommy Doesn’t Drink Here Anymore” chronicles another mother’s descent into alcoholism.
In South Africa, women are taking advantage of new laws promoting diversity to share and spread the country’s wealth. In neighboring Zambia, another woman builds a hospitality empire from $40. Second in a series on emerging female leaders in Africa.
A grandmother plays mother to the children of her daughter, who died of AIDS. Fourth in a series on African women coping with AIDS at different life stages.
In South Africa, a health worker says the AIDS epidemic often makes orphaned female teens turn to older men for protection. Result: They are pregnant and at risk. Second in a series on African women coping with AIDS at different stages of life.
A small but growing number of child-care workers are joining unions to boost wages, benefits and job security in one of the country’s lowest paying occupations. A national umbrella organization is now focusing its efforts in California.
A young South African woman’s income as a rural tour guide is meager. But in so far as it shelters her from pressures to marry early or resort to sex work, research suggests it may help buffer sub-Saharan Africa’s risks of further civil war.
The New York State Court of Appeals is considering offering an opinion on the debate over whether children should be removed from homes where there is domestic violence.
Accused of promoting overseas “sex tours” for U.S. men, a New York-based travel agency is currently closed for business. With a lawsuit pending, Big Apple Oriental Tours says it does not work with prostitutes and has done nothing wrong.
Beauty contestant, sex worker, homemaker. Those are the only subjects for which women serve as the dominant authorities in southern African newspapers. Two groups are trying to change that and to ensure more respect for women in news coverage.