Torrential Clouds in the Global Skies

While researching for an article about education in Africa at my State Department internship, I stumbled upon the book, Half The Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide. It's written by two NYT journalists and highlights female discrimination rampant in the developing world. I bought it as my inspiration read during my winter break. As of now I'm about halfway through it (no pun intended). Reading some parts I feel somber and at the success stories I smile. It's an emotional yo-yo read, yet so fundamentally necessary to see the ways other cultures treat women. The authors successfully intertwine individual anecdotes with real statistics. Journalists often overlook these issues because these societal diseases remain hidden, caked over with bureaucratic repression and wanton politics. It's the media's responsibility to work around these obstacles.