Equality within Our Lifetimes

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How Laws and Policies Can Close—or Widen—Gender Gaps in Economies Worldwide

By Jody Heymann and Aleta Sprague and Amy Raub

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Equality within Our Lifetimes offers a comprehensive analysis of gender equality in the global economy. Using a unique database covering 193 countries, the authors evaluate progress and challenges in women’s employment, income, and leadership opportunities. The book explores key issues such as girls’ education, various forms of employment discrimination, sexual harassment, and caregiving responsibilities. Through global maps, legal case studies, and stories of social impact, it underscores the urgency and feasibility of achieving gender equality in our era.
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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 behind men’s.

Building and using a one-of-a-kind database that covers 193 countries, this book systematically analyses 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.

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Population and Development Review praises the book as "an essential contribution to the analysis of women’s economic equality around the world and the steps required to move closer to that important objective."

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780520392311

Publisher: University of California Press

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 28 February 2023

Country: United States

Imprint: University of California Press

Illustration: 23 color illustrations, 7 tables

Contributors:

Foreword by Hema Swaminathan

Audience: Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 23.0mm

Width: 152.0mm

Height: 229.0mm

Weight: 544g

Pages: 328

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Aleta Sprague Amy Raub Education & Reference Jody Heymann Non-Fiction Politics & Current Affairs

About the Author

Jody Heymann is Founding Director of the WORLD Policy Analysis Center; Distinguished Professor at the UCLA School of Public Affairs, School of Public Health, and School of Medicine; and an elected member of the National Academy of Sciences.

Aleta Sprague is Senior Legal Analyst at the WORLD Policy Analysis Center and an attorney with over a decade of experience working on social policy and inequality.

Amy Raub is Principal Research Analyst at the WORLD Policy Analysis Center and an economist with two decades of experience working on discrimination and inequality.