I have always believed that if given a chance to truly follow our own initiative, instincts and learning from our life experiences, we women could make tremendous progress in correcting all sorts of inequality in the world.
Here is a website and book that illustrate just that.
I heard about this movement on, of all shows, The Colbert Report. We happen to be big fans of Steven Colbert, one of the premier satirists of our time, but his interview with Sheryl WuDunn about the work she and Nicholas Kristof have been doing to change the way we see activism was truly enlightening.
I am looking forward to reading this book. While women in the United States do have it better than most in the developing world, we still have a problem with being undervalued. We see it in our education system, in commerce with the lack of pay parity with men and in the area of health care and child care. Women in our country have so many advantages yet we still have so many women, children and families in poverty. Just take a look at these statistics on hunger and poverty from Feeding America:
"In 2007, households that were more likely to experience food insecurity were households with children (15.8%), households with children headed by single women (30.2 percent) or single men (18 percent), households with incomes below the poverty line (37.7 percent), Black non-Hispanic households (22.2 percent) and Hispanic households (20.1 percent)."
We all need to do more about this. Everywhere. This website and book share alot of information to point the way.
Posted by Kate Tinnan, WRC Volunteer
