Description
Informed and persuasive, Scott’s polemic against gender inequality in global economics highlights the benefits for everybody of empowering women in business and in the workforce.
Shortlisted for the Royal Society Insight Investment Science Book Prize 2020
Longlisted for the Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award 2020
An urgent analysis of global gender inequality and a passionately argued case for change by a pioneer in the movement for women's economic empowerment.
The Cost of Sexism is an urgent analysis of global gender inequality and a fervently argued case for change by a pioneer in the movement for women's economic empowerment. Drawing on decades of statistical evidence, original research and global on-the-ground experience, Linda Scott outlines a revolutionary, actionable plan to remove economic barriers against women, and in the process combat humankind's most pressing problems.
The Cost of Sexism was previously published in 2020 in hardback under the title The Double X Economy.
Number of pages: 384
Dimensions: 198 x 129 x 23 mm
