In honor of Dr. Who, I can think about the challenges of the universe. The Women's Crusade: Saving the Worlds Women, in the New York Times online magazine is our tardis.
“Women hold up half the sky,” in the words of a Chinese saying, yet that’s mostly an aspiration: in a large slice of the world, girls are uneducated and women marginalized, and it’s not an accident that those same countries are disproportionately mired in poverty and riven by fundamentalism and chaos. There’s a growing recognition among everyone from the World Bank to the U.S. military’s Joint Chiefs of Staff to aid organizations like CARE that focusing on women and girls is the most effective way to fight global poverty and extremism. That’s why foreign aid is increasingly directed to women. The world is awakening to a powerful truth: Women and girls aren’t the problem; they’re the solution. (Kristof, 2009)
Let get in the tardis and see what we can do to make the world a better place, starting by being educated about the world around us. I guess I can do both... time travel is a wonderful thing.
