The Double X Economy
Subtitle: The Epic Potential of Women's Empowerment
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: Jul 21, 2020
Language: eng
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 384
ISBN-13: 9780374142629
Description: "A leading thinker's groundbreaking examination of women's economic empowerment"--

"Linda Scott coined the phrase  ́Double X Economy ́ to address the systemic exclusion of women from the world financial order. In The Double X Economy, Scott argues on the strength of hard data and on-the-ground experience that removing those barriers to women&#x2019;s success is a win for everyone, regardless of gender. Scott opens our eyes to the myriad economic injustices that constrain women throughout the world: fathers buying and selling daughters against their will; husbands burning brides whose dowries have been spent; men appropriating women&#x2019;s earnings and widows&#x2019; land; banks discriminating against women applying for loans; corporations paying women less than men; men treating women as their intellectual inferiors due to primitive notions of female brain development; governments depriving women of affordable childcare; and so much more. As Scott takes us from the streets of Accra, where sex trafficking is widespread, to American business schools, where women are routinely patronized, the pervasiveness of the Double X Economy becomes glaringly obvious. But Scott believes that this rampant problem can be solved. She proposes concrete actions and urges her readers to rise up and join the global movement for women&#x2019;s economic empowerment that is gaining momentum by the day." --

Scott addresses the systemic exclusion of women from the world financial order. She argues on the strength of hard data and on-the-ground experience that removing those barriers to women's success is a win for everyone, regardless of gender. Myriad economic injustices have constrained women throughout the world, and Scott takes us from the streets of Accra, where sex trafficking is widespread, to American business schools, where women are routinely patronized, to shows that the pervasiveness of the Double X Economy is glaringly obvious. She proposes concrete actions and urges her readers to rise up and join the global movement for women's economic empowerment that is gaining momentum by the day. -- adapted from jacket
Notes: Source title: The Double X Economy: The Epic Potential of Women's Empowerment