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ALSO BY NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF AND SHERYL WUDUNN
Thunder from the East: Portrait of a Rising Asia
China Wakes: The Struggle for the Soul of a Rising Power
For our children: Gregory, Geoffrey, and Caroline
.
Thanks for your love and patience when research for this book
meant grumpy or absent parents and less cheering at your
soccer games. You’ve enriched our journeys through
difficult and oppressive countries, and you’re
wonderful kids to be arrested with!
And for all those on the front lines around the globe,
saving the world, one woman at a time
.
Women hold up half the sky
.
—CHINESE PROVERB
CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
The Girl Effect
CHAPTER ONE
Emancipating Twenty-First-Century Slaves
Fighting Slavery from Seattle
CHAPTER TWO
Prohibition and Prostitution
Rescuing Girls Is the Easy Part
CHAPTER THREE
Learning to Speak Up
The New Abolitionists
CHAPTER FOUR
Rule by Rape
Mukhtar’s School
CHAPTER FIVE
The Shame of “Honor”
“Study Abroad”—in the Congo
CHAPTER SIX
Maternal Mortality—One Woman a Minute
A Doctor Who Treats Countries, Not Patients
CHAPTER SEVEN
Why Do Women Die in Childbirth?
Edna’s Hospital
CHAPTER EIGHT
Family Planning and the “God Gulf”
Jane Roberts and Her 34 Million Friends
CHAPTER NINE
Is Islam Misogynistic?
The Afghan Insurgent
CHAPTER TEN
Investing in Education
Ann and Angeline
CHAPTER ELEVEN
Microcredit: The Financial Revolution
A CARE Package for Goretti
CHAPTER TWELVE
The Axis of Equality
Tears over
Time
Magazine
CHAPTER THIRTEEN
Grassroots vs. Treetops
Girls Helping Girls
CHAPTER FOURTEEN
What You Can Do
Four Steps You Can Take in the Next Ten Minutes
Appendix: Organizations Supporting Women
Acknowledgments
Notes
INTRODUCTION
The Girl Effect
What would men be without women? Scarce, sir, mighty scarce.
—MARK TWAIN
S
rey Rath is a self-confident Cambodian teenager whose black hair tumbles over a round, light brown face. She is in a crowded street market, standing beside a pushcart and telling her story calmly, with detachment. The only hint of anxiety or trauma is the way she often pushes her hair from in front of her black eyes, perhaps a nervous tic. Then she lowers her hand and her long fingers gesticulate and flutter in the air with incongruous grace as she recounts her odyssey.
Rath is short and small-boned, pretty, vibrant, and bubbly, a wisp of a girl whose negligible stature contrasts with an outsized and outgoing personality. When the skies abruptly release a tropical rain shower that drenches us, she simply laughs and rushes us to cove ............

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