The greatest threat to extremism isn't drones firing missiles, but girls reading books.

Neither Western donor countries like the U.S. nor poor recipients like Cameroon care much about Africans who are poor, rural and female

Write letters to your editors, write to your members of Congress, and write to your news stations.

The news media's silence, particularly television news, is reprehensible.

The north of the Central African Republic is now a war zone, with rival armed bands burning villages, kidnapping children, robbing travelers and killing people with impunity.

China was probably the worst place in the world to grow up female 100 years ago. There was foot binding, female infanticide, concubinage, and child marriage, and now it's one of the better places. So I really do feel that we're on the right side of history here.

Women aren't the problem but the solution. The plight of girls is no more a tragedy than an opportunity.