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

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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 ha...