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Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide is a 2009 nonfiction book by journalists Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn. Drawing on reporting from Asia, Africa, and other regions, it examines the structural oppression faced by women and girls through issues such as sex trafficking, forced prostitution, gender-based violence, maternal mortality, lack of education, and limited access to healthcare and economic opportunity. The book is part investigative journalism, part policy argument, and part call to action. Its central claim is that the marginalization of women is not a peripheral social problem but one of the most serious human rights and development challenges in the world. Rather than presenting only statistics, the authors use personal stories to make the scale of the problem concrete and then pair those stories with examples of grassroots interventions, social entrepreneurs, and practical reforms that can improve lives.