The Double X Economy: The Epic Potential of Women's Empowerment

ISBN: 0374142629

Author: Scott, Linda

Condition: New

Winner of the 2020 Porchlight Business Book of the Year AwardOne of The Guardian's Best Books of 2020. Finalist for the 2020 Royal Science Society Book Prize and the 2020 Porchlight Business Book Awards. Longlisted for the 2020 Financial Times & McKinsey Business Book of the YearLinda Scott shines a light on womens essential and often invisible contributions to our global economy-while combining insight, analysis, and interdisciplinary data to make a compelling and actionable case for unleashing womens economic power. -Melinda Gates, author of The Moment of Lift: How Empowering Women Changes the WorldA leading thinker's groundbreaking examination of women's economic empowermentLinda 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 womens 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 womens earnings and widows 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 womens economic empowerment that is gaining momentum by the day.