Child Brides, Global Consequences: How to End Child Marriage
Jul 2014 · Council on Foreign Relations
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58
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About this ebook
One-third of the world's girls are married before the age of eighteen, limiting both their educational and economic potential. Child marriage is damaging to global prosperity and stability, yet despite the urgency of the issue, there remains a significant lack of data on the subject. Senior Fellow Gayle Tzemach Lemmon discusses both the factors that contribute to and strategies that have proved effective against child marriage.
About the author
Gayle Tzemach Lemmon is a journalist and the author of The Dressmaker of Khair Khana, a New York Times bestseller published in March 2011. She is also a Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and a contributor to the Atlantic's Defense One site covering foreign policy and national security matters. Lemmon graduated with a BA in Journalism summa cum laude from the University of Missouri. From 1997 to 2004, she worked in the ABC News Political Unit, where she served as producer in the first year of "This Week with George Stephanopoulos." She graduated with an MBA from Harvard Business School (HBS), where she received the 2006 Dean¿s Award for her work on women¿s entrepreneurship.
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