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x, 365 pages : 24 cm "A leading thinker's groundbreaking examination of women's economic empowerment"-- "Linda Scott coined the phrase "Double X Economy" to address the systemic exclusion of women from the world financial order. In The Double X Economy, Scott argues on the strength of hard data and on-the-ground experience that removing those barriers to women's success is a win for everyone, regardless of gender. Scott opens our eyes to the myriad economic injustices that constrain women throughout the world: fathers buying and selling daughters against their will; husbands burning brides whose dowries have been spent; men appropriating women's earnings and widows' land; banks discriminating against women applying for loans; corporations paying women less than men; men treating women as their intellectual inferiors due to primitive notions of female brain development; governments depriving women of affordable childcare; and so much more. As Scott takes us from the streets of Accra, where sex trafficking is widespread, to American business schools, where women are routinely patronized, the pervasiveness of the Double X Economy becomes glaringly obvious. But Scott believes that this

Author

Linda M Scott

Publisher

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Published

2020

Language

EN

ISBN

9781250798558

Subjects

Gender Studies, Political Science, Social_sciences

Rating

4.6 / 5 (84 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14