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Equality for women = prosperity for all : the disastrous global crisis of gender inequality / Augusto Lopez-Claros and Bahiyyih Nakhjavani.

by López-Claros, Augusto.

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St. Martin's Press, 2018.

Sex discrimination.

Women's rights.

Economic development.

9781250051189 (hc.)

Alternate title:

Equality for women equals prosperity for all : the disastrous global crisis of gender inequality

viii, 312 p. ; 25 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"The economics of gender inequality is often reduced to equal pay for equal work. But there is much more to it than that. Can a woman, whether married or single, register a business in the same way as a man? Can she sign a contract? Do men and women have equal ownership rights to property? Does she have the right to confer citizenship on her children? Are there criminal sanctions for sexual harassment? Gender inequality in the fields of education, law, employment and wages lead to incalculable social and political disparities. These disparities in turn give rise to endemic poverty and violence, to individual frustration, social instability and cultural disaffection. When women are deprived of their rights, economies are eroded, democracies weakened, and the fabric of societies radically undermined. This pioneering book shows, once and for all, the direct correlation between the freedoms given to women and the prosperity enjoyed by all."--From publisher.

Nakhjavani, Bahiyyih.

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