Equality within Our Lifetimes: How Laws and Policies Can Close or Widen Gender Gaps in Economies.

Well into the twenty-first century, achieving gender equality in the economy remains unfinished business. Worldwide, women’s employment, income, and leadership opportunities lag men’s. Building and using a one-of-a-kind database that covers 193 countries, this book systematically analyzes how far we’ve come and how far we have to go in adopting evidence-based solutions to close the gaps. Spanning topics including girls’ education, employment discrimination of all kinds, sexual harassment, and caregiving needs across the life course, the authors bring the findings to life through global maps, stories of laws’ impact in courts and beyond, and case studies of making change. A powerful call to action, Equality within Our Lifetimes reveals how gender equality is both feasible and urgently needed to address some of the greatest challenges of our generation.

Join the Better Life Lab at New America for a discussion about the possibility of achieving gender equality in our lifetimes, and what we must do in the U.S. to make that dream into a reality.

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Featuring Authors:

Jody Heymann
Founding Director, WORLD Policy Analysis Center at UCLA Fielding School of Public Health

Aleta Sprague
Senior Legal Analyst, WORLD Policy Analysis Center at UCLA Fielding School of Public Health

Moderator:

Haley Swenson
Research and Reporting Fellow, Better Life Lab at New America

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