Equality for Women = Prosperity for All by Augusto Lopez-Claros and Bahiyyih Nakhjavani is a groundbreaking audiobook about the direct relationship between a woman's rights and freedoms and the economic prosperity of her country.
The economics of gender inequality is often reduced to equal pay for equal work. But there is much more to it than that. Can a woman, whether married or single, register a business in the same way as a man? Can she sign a contract? Do men and women have equal ownership rights to property? Does she have the right to confer citizenship on her children? Are there criminal sanctions for sexual harassment?
Gender inequality in the fields of education, law, employment and wages lead to incalculable social and political disparities. These disparities in turn give rise to endemic poverty and violence, to individual frustration, social instability and cultural disaffection. When women are deprived of their rights, economies are eroded, democracies weakened, and the fabric of societies radically undermined. This pioneering book shows, once and for all, the direct correlation between the freedoms given to women and the prosperity enjoyed by all.
Equality for Women = Prosperity for All
The Disastrous Global Crisis of Gender Inequality
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Release date
October 30, 2018 -
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OverDrive Listen audiobook
- ISBN: 9781250301406
- File size: 298846 KB
- Duration: 10:22:35
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Languages
- English
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July 30, 2018
In this convincing collaboration, World Bank economist Lopez-Claros and novelist Nakhjavani (The Woman Who Read Too Much) argue that the costs of denying women equal opportunities for health, education, legal protection, and employment are “just too high to pay any longer.” From an economic standpoint that views women as human capital and gender inequality as “a waste of human resources,” the authors demonstrate that full human rights for women is not only a moral and political issue but also “an issue of economic efficiency.” They draw on hard-hitting statistics to illustrate the “female deficit” in the world population (in 2015, “there were some 101.6 males for every 100 females”), the lost productivity due to violence against women, and the numerous economic indicators that improve when women are granted equal voice and pay in the workplace (the authors note that according to research consultancy MSCI, companies with women on boards are “correlated with higher return on equity than companies without such leadership”). Practical, intelligent, and focused on solutions (“Whenever mothers are educated, there is a higher probability their daughters will be too”), this book combines sound research across several disciplines to prove the simple math of its title and make the pressing case that governments should prioritize gender equality for reasons of economic stability if nothing else.
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