Journalist Sheryl WuDunn was named one of Newsweek's 150 Women Who Shake the World, was featured in "The Makers" PBS documentary about leading women in America, and earned a Pulitzer Prize for coverage of the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests. On Tuesday, Oct. 21, WuDunn will be featured during the Ambrose Women for Social Justice Conference and a lecture on the St. Ambrose campus.
From the River Cities' Reader:
"'We think that one of the greatest moral challenges of our time is the gender inequality and the brutality that many women and girls face around the world because of their gender,' said WuDunn ... in a recent phone interview.
"'We also think one of the most effective ways to address a lot of the inequality is through educating girls and bringing them into the formal labor force...and we talk about a lot of these issues by telling stories of women who have been facing these challenges, and of other women and men who have come up with solutions.'"
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