Equality within our lifetimes : how laws and policies can close-or widen-gender gaps in economies worldwide / Jody Heymann, Aleta Sprague, Amy Raub ; foreword by Hema Swaminathan.
"The book proceeds in three sections. In section one, we examine how the laws in every country address discrimination in the workplace-not only on the basis of sex and gender, but also based on pregnancy, family status, race/ethnicity, religion, disability, migration status, sexual orientation,...
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Oakland, California :
University of California Press,
[2023]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Gender discrimination at work
- Equal rights at work for women must mean all women
- Why ending sexual harassment is integral to ending gender discrimination
- Putting non-discrimination into practice : improving access to justice and realizing the promise of gender equality laws
- How laws and policies reinforce gender inequality in caring for children
- How the law's neglect of caregiving across the life course fuels gender inequality
- Education : investing in girls to advance gender equality long-term
- Civil society as a powerful source for change
- Achieving gender equality in the economy in our lifetimes.