Hillarysworld

This is a really good article, looking at the positives honestly - without trying to spin it for one pol party or another.  Hill has the skill, insight, and passion for women's rights to have a huge impact.. 


The push could backfire if it comes off as a lecture or is perceived as another modern Western idea that will cause societal upheaval. But Clinton is wisely framing the issue in terms of countries' own interests.

Her pitch: Healthcare for women, especially maternal care, makes for healthier children and families. Schooling for girls contributes to economic progress. Microloans to women pay handsome dividends as women pay them off and invest further in businesses and their families' welfare. (The majority of the world's small-holder farmers are women.)

Some experts also see a link between the oppression of women and the problems of extremism and terrorism.


What a success story!  When Hillary was first lady, she brought much positive attention and support to the effort to help women begin businesses through micro-loans.  This lady and her family received immeasurable benefit from such a loan.  I'll have to say that Salma is a better woman than I am.  After suffering daily beadings from her husband, now that she has her own business, she hired him.  I hope she gave him a good ass kicking first.

They tell of Saima Muhammad, a poverty-stricken wife and mother near Lahore, Pakistan, who suffered daily beatings from her jobless husband. For lack of food, she had to send her daughter to live with an aunt. When her second child, a girl, was born, Saima's husband was urged by his mother to take a second wife so he could father a son.

Then Saima got a loan of $65 through a Pakistani group that lends exclusively to women. She started an embroidery business that now employs 30 families in the neighborhood (including her husband). She paid off her husband's debt (more than $3,000), kept her girls in school, and upgraded her house, adding running water and TV.

http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/0911/p12s01-comv.html

I thought I posted this several days ago but for some reason I must not have found it.
This is a good article about all the work that Hillary is doing for women all over the world.