Worldwide Feminism

Yesterday a friend asked me if I’d like to attend a lecture with her on Feb. 28^th.  I hadn’t heard of the speaker so I took a minute to see who she was:

Sheryl WuDunn is a Chinese American business executive, author, lecturer, and the first Asian American to win a Pulitzer Prize.

She has an impressive resumé ranging from advisor with Goldman Sachs to business executive for The New York Times where she covered global energy, foreign technology and foreign industry.   

She graduated from Cornell University with a BA in European in history and then earned an MBA from Harvard Business School and an MPA from Princeton.  In 2011 she was listed by Newsweek as one of 150 Women Who Shake the World. 

What interests me most, however, is the work she and her husband are doing in the field of international feminism.  In 2009 she co-wrote a book with her husband titled Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide.  The book looked so intriguing from the website that I ordered it.

In the meantime, I’m looking forward to hearing about her personal story and the Half Sky Movement on the 28^th. 

Here is more information about her story and those of the women she highlights:

  http://www.halftheskymovement.org/get-involved  (The cause.)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheryl_WuDunn  (Wikipedia article about Sheryl)

http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/en/sheryl_wudunn_our_century_s_greatest_injustice.html  (Ted talk by Sheryl)