APAP Calendar

BLOGGERS NEEDED!

Interested in sharing your opinions about progressive politics? Want to highlight the great work of local community groups and individuals? Then join our blog team. Send us an email and we can sign you up. apafp AT apaforprogress DOT org.

Items tagged: economic independence

100 Million Women Are Missing: an Immodest Proposal for Gender Equality

Between 60 million and 107 million women and girls are missing around the world – according to studies quoted by Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn in their shocking, yet remarkably hopeful, lead article, Saving the World’s Women, about the oppression of women worldwide in the August 23, 2009 New York Times Magazine.  These studies compare normal ratios of births against the current population.  In China, for example, there are 107 males for every 100 females a