Equality within Our Lifetimes (eBook)

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

Jody Heymann, Aleta Sprague, Amy Raub (Autoren)

eBook Download: EPUB

2023
328 Seiten
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-39230-4 (ISBN)

Infos

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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.

Inhalt

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: Realizing the Promise of Gender Equality Laws 
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

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 28.2.2023
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Prävention / Gesundheitsförderung
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
• Schlagworte: Caregiving • comparing countries • Discrimination • Ethnicity • gender equality law and policy • Health • marriage • Middle income countries • overturning discriminatory laws • Paid leave • sexual harassment protection • Social Class • Women • women’s labor force participation
• ISBN-10: 0-520-39230-2 / 0520392302
• ISBN-13: 978-0-520-39230-4 / 9780520392304