Sheryl WuDunn

Because of her personal feelings on and experiences with gender inequality, Sheryl Sandberg, in her chapter “Success and Likeability,” sought to validate her experiences to a broader audience. She argues that women must embrace their success, be comfortable with their own power, and not attempt to please everyone, through personal anecdotes, comparison-and-contrast techniques, and rhetorical questions. Sandberg begins her argument that women must embrace their own success using a series of…

In the essay “Lean In: What Would You Do If You Weren’t Afraid” Sheryl Sandberg takes the gender equality topic head on. Sandberg starts off the essay with her grandmother’s life story. From there she uses examples spanning from birth names to career paths to everyday examples of gender segregation in our surrounding world. She targets her audience as not just trying to be empowering to women but to also bring the topic to the light for men. Through her eye opening examples, Sandberg…

In the book “A Path Appears” by the winning journalist Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn wrote about making chances to create opportunity to change for better. It was published in September 23, 2014. The first thing I did before I read the book, I looked the summary from the back and the author’s background to better understanding. The introduction of Path Appears, grabbed me attention because there has little short stories about people who made it change and impact on themselves or for the…

Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn a husband-wife team that won the Pulitzer Prize award and is listed as best selling authors because of their eagerness to discover and understand the truth as journalist. They have collectively described stories of their travels pertaining to women, which throughout their careers of investigating the lives and struggles of women in great depth and their discoveries can be seen throughout “Half the Sky”. In the book Kristof and WuDunn explore the many ways…

In the reading “Half the Sky” “Investing in Education,” Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn discusses a thirteen-year-old girl, Dai Manju, a thin girl with black hair and shorter than an average American thirteen-year-old who lives in the Dabie Mountains of central China. The family has no electricity, running water, or any form of transportation. Manju’s parents were illiterate and they did not see any reason for a girl to be educated, especially for $13 per year so she was forced to drop out of…

S. Women are not paid as much as men, they experience more violent and sexual harassment, and in other countries, having a son is actually seen as better than having a daughter. In "The Girl Effect," written by Nicholas D. Kristof and his wife Sheryl WuDunn, the couple addresses the issues of discrimination and that women face in countries like China and how there is this issue of “gendercide” where women around the world are disappearing and it is going overlooked. We do not see or treat women…

Sky is a heart breaking, eye opening report of the oppression of women and a call to action. In this book, two journalists, Nicholas Kristof and His wife, Sheryl WuDunn, travel throughout Asia and Africa, meeting remarkable women who have overcome the greatest odds and lived to share their stories. During their journey, Kristof and WuDunn met women of all ages who were victims of the most horrific abuse. Neglect, physical violence, rape, sex trafficking and forced prostitution are just some…

daily occurrence and due to “habituation” are overlooked by the public. Our “habituation” is a lack of response or reaction to the stimulus due to our daily exposure to the events. Written by editors of the New York Times, Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn, “The Girl Effect”, focuses on discrimination against women and how the news fails to cover such topics. However, journalists can expose such practices and events through their writing. In order for this to occur, they must first become…

actions. Kristof and WuDunn also talk about a young girl who had actions similar to that of a feminist. The authors introduce us to the story of Srey Rath, a young girl from Cambodia who experienced sex trafficking when she was just looking for a job to support her family. They tell us how Rath was able to escape and make a better life for herself even after going through what she had to go through and then even became a successful business woman. In their text Kristof and WuDunn state, “Rath’s…

say in politics allows for this “caring” society to work better. Conversely, Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn talk about the effect that women can have on the economy when they are working in “The Girl Effect.” In this essay, the authors discuss how by having educated females in their countries, these countries would then further advance the quality of life. Additionally, both Kristof and WuDunn discuss how different women have affected the economy in their countries. While there are…