Equality within Our Lifetimes: How Laws and Policies Can Close―or Widen―Gender Gaps in Economies Worldwide

✍ Scribed by Jody Heymann, Aleta Sprague, Amy Raub

• Publisher: University of California Press
• Year: 2023
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 329
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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Well into the twenty-first century, achieving gender equality in the economy remains unfinished business. Worldwide, women’s employment, income, and leadership opportunities lag men’s. Building and using a one-of-a-kind database that covers 193 countries, this book systematically analyzes how far we’ve come and how far we have to go in adopting evidence-based solutions to close the gaps. Spanning topics including girls’ education, employment discrimination of all kinds, sexual harassment, and caregiving needs across the life course, the authors bring the findings to life through global maps, stories of laws’ impact in courts and beyond, and case studies of making change. A powerful call to action, Equality within Our Lifetimes reveals how gender equality is both feasible and urgently needed to address some of the greatest challenges of our generation.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Title
Copyright
Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
Foreword
Acknowledgments
1. Introduction
2. Gender Discrimination at Work
3. Equal Rights at Work for Women Must Mean All Women
4. Why Ending Sexual Harassment Is Integral to Ending Gender Discrimination
5. Putting Nondiscrimination into Practice
6. How Laws and Policies Reinforce Inequality in Caring for Children
7. How the Law’s Neglect of Caregiving across the Life Course Fuels Inequality
8. Education: Investing in Girls to Advance Equality Long-Term
9. Civil Society as a Powerful Source for Change
10. Achieving Gender Equality in the Economy in Our Lifetimes
Index