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Birth and death: Time to unleash the power of women

"Not since the United Nations declared 1975 The International Year of the Women, has the rhetoric about empowering women been so high and the proclamations of presidents and pundits so encouraging.  Half the Sky: Turning Oppression Into Opportunity for Women Worldwide by Pulitzer-Prize winners Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn is in its 7th printing and #12 on the Amazon Bestseller List. This week’s Time Magazine has as its cover story, The State of the American Woman, coinciding with release of The Shriver Report titled A Woman’s Nation.  All agree.  Everywhere across the globe, today’s women are hailed as pivotal to the health and well-being of their families, communities, nations and the world.  Today’s women are our mothers and breadwinners, healers and entrepreneurs, teachers and negotiators, executives and mentors."

Click here to read the entire op-ed written by the White Ribbon Alliance's President/Executive Director Theresa Shaver in Conversations for a Better World.