The University of Connecticut Women’s Center on March 3 is sponsoring a lecture by Sheryl WuDunn, best-selling co-author of Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide. The talk begins at 7 p.m. in the Jorgensen Center for the Performing Arts.

The book, written by the Pulitzer Prize-winning husband-wife team WuDunn and Nicholas Kristof, explores how a renewed focus on women and girls can end many of the world’s ills, and reveals the cruel reality faced by women around the world who experience violence and oppression, including sex trafficking and mass rape.

As Tom Brokaw describes it, “Half the Sky is a passionate and persuasive plea to all of us to rise up and say ‘No more!’ to the 17th-century abuses to girls and women in the 21st-century world. This is a book that will pierce your heart and arouse your conscience. It is a powerful piece of journalism by two masters of the craft who are tireless in their pursuit of one of the most shameful conditions of our time.”

The lecture will be followed by a book signing in the Jorgensen lobby. The event is free and open to the public. It is sponsored by the Women’s Center, the African American Cultural Center, the Asian American Cultural Center, the Puerto Rican Latin American Cultural Center, the Rainbow Center, and the Student Union Board of Governors.

For more information:

Kathy Fischer, 860-486-4738, Kathy.Fischer@uconn.edu