Author

Publication

2019 - C. Hurst and Company (Publishers) Limited

Language

English

Word Count

88,000 words, Guess

Page Count

352 pages

Identifiers

  • ISBN-139781787381742
  • ISBN-101787381749
  • OCLC Control Number1128047974
  • Better World Books9781787381742
  • Open LibraryOL34667119M

Classifications

  • LCCHD6060
  • LCCHD6060 .P79 2019

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.

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