Women vs. Capitalism
Subtitle: Why We Can't Have It All in a Free Market Economy
Publisher: C. Hurst and Company (Publishers) Limited
Published: 2019
Language: eng
Number of pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9781787381742
Subjects: Sex discrimination in employment; Free enterprise; Women, employment; Feminist theory
Description: The free market as we know it cannot produce gender equality. This is the bold but authoritative argument of Vicky Pryce, the government's former economics chief. 'Women vs Capitalism' is a fresh and timely reminder that, although the #MeToo movement has been hugely important, empowerment of the mind will not achieve full power for women while there remains economic inequality. Pryce urgently calls for feminists to focus attention on this pressing issue: the pay gap, the glass ceiling, and the obstacles to women working at all. Only with government intervention in the labour market will these long-standing problems finally be conquered. From the gendered threat of robot labour to the lack of women in economics itself, this is a sharp look at an uncomfortable truth: we will not achieve equality for women in our society without radical changes to Western capitalism.