Top 10 Women's Health Stories Of The Decade: Nothing Replaces A Woman's Wisdom

[Triana]

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"Focusing on the needs and education of women and girls is the issue of this century. Pulitzer-Prize-winning journalist team Sheryl WuDunn and Nicholas D. Kristof, authors of Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide (Alfred A. Knopf, 2009) write: "The world is awakening to a powerful truth: Women and girls aren't the problem; they're the solution." <15> Greg Mortenson, coauthor of Three Cups of Tea writes: "Young women are the developing world's greatest agents of progress. Just one year of schooling will dramatically raise a girl's later economic prospects and where girls get to fifth grade, birth rates and infant mortality plunge. Teaching girls to read and write reduces ignorance and poverty that fuel religious extremism and lays a groundwork for prosperity and peace. In military parlance, educating girls is a "force multiplier."


Read the entire article (LOTS of good info here for women, girls, and those who love them):


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/christiane-northrup/top-10-womens-health-stor_b_403130.html

[Th1onein]

1. Thank you for posting this.

Great article.

[Triana]

2. You're welcome....

...I saw a lot of good info for myself and the women in my own family.

Women are still considered second-class citizens when it comes to medical research and health care (obviously, given the new HCR mess) and big Pharma et al mostly seek to profit from female "ailments" than trying to work with the natural wisdom of women and women's bodies to truly help (rather than control or profit from) female health problems. Ignorant profit-seeking corporations and governments only want to control what they're too lazy and ignorant to bother trying to understand. It has always been thus, and women (and our society and planet) continue suffer for it.

I haven't read "Half the Sky" yet but it's definitely on my list. Probably a very good read.