Women do need to be empowered, and Kristoff and WuDunn speak powerfully to the reality that women face around the planet. But their perspective on the solution to this is not only wrong but filled with lies and distortions.
Women do not "hold up half the sky" under capitalism imperialism, through microloans and sweatshops around the world. This slogan "Women hold up half the sky" was from revolutionary China where there were actually tremendous breakthroughs in ending exploitation and liberating women! Check out this video from Sunsara Taylor, a writer for Revolution newspaper, commenting on Kristof and WuDunn's perspective and what it says about discourse on women's emancipation today: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2qQht-4Fos
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Alice
Nov 05, 2009
10:20 a.m.
Women do need to be empowered, and Kristoff and WuDunn speak powerfully to the reality that women face around the planet. But their perspective on the solution to this is not only wrong but filled with lies and distortions.
Women do not "hold up half the sky" under capitalism imperialism, through microloans and sweatshops around the world. This slogan "Women hold up half the sky" was from revolutionary China where there were actually tremendous breakthroughs in ending exploitation and liberating women! Check out this video from Sunsara Taylor, a writer for Revolution newspaper, commenting on Kristof and WuDunn's perspective and what it says about discourse on women's emancipation today: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2qQht-4Fos