Last Wednesday, Liberian peace activist Leymah Gbowee paid a visit to Google to talk about her memoir, Mighty Be Our Powers: How Sisterhood, Prayer, and Sex Changed a Nation at War. Two days later, she was awarded the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize along with Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and Tawakkol Karman. The Googlers provide a quick introduction to her activism before the conversation begins.…
via Google Book Blog
inspiring woman. and of course completely deserving. but the gender politics of this award is complicated — which doesn’t detract from her, but which does detract from the committee’s handling of the announcement this year.
“The Nobel Peace Prize’s problem with women” http://wp.me/p1xS1Q-aD