​When We Are Bold

Marilyn Waring is a New Zealand economist, feminist, author and activist. As a former politician, (she became a member of parliament at age 23), she played a key role in the passing of New Zealand’s nuclear-free legislation, which is still a cornerstone of the country’s foreign policy. Her hugely influential 1988 book, If Women Counted, was a revolutionary critique of the way the international standard of measuring economic growth discounts nature and women’s unpaid labour.

Read Helen Caldicott: Inspiration for the First Nuke-Free Country 
by Marilyn Waring in When We Are Bold: Women Who Turn Our Upsidedown World Right

Helen Caldicott is an Australian physician and one of the world’s leading anti-nuclear advocates. She is an internationally renowned speaker and author on the subject of the nuclear age’s hazards to human and environmental health, and is the president of The Helen Caldicott Foundation, which aims to raise awareness about the dangers of nuclear power and promote a nuclear energy and weapons-free world.