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    The Double X Economy: The Epic Potential of Women's Empowerment
    The Double X Economy: The Epic Potential of Women's Empowerment
    The Double X Economy: The Epic Potential of Women's Empowerment
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    The Double X Economy: The Epic Potential of Women's Empowerment

    Written by Linda Scott

    Narrated by Linda Scott and Kitty Hendrix

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    This program includes an introduction read by the author

    Winner of the 2020 Porchlight Business Book of the Year Award

    One of The Guardian's Best Books of 2020. Finalist for the 2020 Royal Science Society Book Prize     and the 2020 Porchlight Business Book Awards. Longlisted for the 2020 Financial Times & McKinsey Business Book of the Year

    “Linda Scott shines a light on women’s essential and often invisible contributions to our global economy—while combining insight, analysis, and interdisciplinary data to make a compelling and actionable case for unleashing women’s economic power.” —Melinda Gates, author of The Moment of Lift: How Empowering Women Changes the World

    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 rampant problem can be solved. She proposes concrete actions and urges her readers to rise up and join the global movement for women’s economic empowerment that is gaining momentum by the day.

    A Macmillan Audio production from Farrar, Straus and Giroux

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMacmillan Audio
    Release dateJul 21, 2020
    ISBN9781250752840
    Author

    Linda Scott

    Linda Scott is the Emeritus DP World Professor of Entrepreneurship and Innovation at the University of Oxford and a Senior Consulting Fellow at the Royal Institute for International Affairs. She founded, and is now Senior Adviser to, the Global Business Coalition for Women’s Economic Empowerment and was selected as one of the top 25 Global Thinkers by Prospect (U.K.) in in 2015. Scott works with multinational corporations, international agencies, national governments, and global NGOs designing and testing programs to better include women in the world economy.

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      The TERFy title puts me off immediately. It’s a real shame, too, because I’m sure the insights are relatively sound, but if they’re coming from a place of biological determinism - aka, leaving trans women out of the conversation - the insights will inevitably be biased. Seriously - in an age where JK Rowling is a known TERF, this title is a brand risk.