Attack of the 50 Ft. Women: How Gender Equality Can Save The World! Audiobook (Free)
- Tanya Moodie
- 13 h 15 min
- HarperCollins Publishers UK
- 2017-03-08
Summary:
‘Buy it for yourself, your husband or partner. Most of all, purchase it for your children’
Sunday Express
Essential reading from Catherine Mayer, recently named among the Top 100 Most Important People in Global Policy on Gender Equality.
Not a solitary country all over the world offers attained gender equality. In more than a few countries, progress for ladies provides stalled or is certainly reversing. Voters in the United about Attack from the 50 Ft. Women: How Gender Equality Can Save The World! States opt for misogynist over a lady candidate for Chief executive.
Yet in lots of of the countries, the majority of politicians and business leaders profess to trust in gender equality-as well they might. One report predicts a lift to global GDP of £8.3 trillion by 2025 simply by making faster progress towards narrowing the gender gap. Analysts point to many other potential benefits too, not really least in improved relations between the sexes and a wholesome, more peaceful world.
If gender equality claims benefits not just to females, but to everyone, so why aren’t we embracing it? And how do we speed the pace of change? Fewer than nine percent of world leaders are female, but the few ladies who have damaged through consist of towering figures such as for example Angela Merkel. Could 50-feet ladies save your day? These queries have gripped journalist and writer Catherine Mayer since she accidentally founded the Women’s Equality Party in March 2015 and watched it grow in weeks from a concept to a captivating political force with more than 70 branches over the UK.
In ATTACK OF THE 50 FOOT WOMEN, her insightful, revelatory, often hilarious, and hugely inspiring reserve, she tackles those questions and many more, writing inside views and experiences from creating a party, and bringing together global research with analyses and interviews predicated on her personal far-flung research.
And she moves further. Campaigning for the Women’s Equality Party before elections in May 2016, she pointed out that many people found it hard, in the absence of any real-life good examples, to envisage a gender-equal world. So she requires us there, to the place she calls Equalia. What is it truly like? Does gender equality make for a society that is more equal in other ways too? Would you the low-paid jobs? So how exactly does gender express itself in a location free of gender development? What’s the sex like? What’s around the telly?
For some fascinating answers and brilliant idea experiments-and a blueprint for getting Equalia-read ATTACK OF THE FIFTY FOOT Ladies.
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