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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
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In The Double X Economy, economist Linda Scott lays down an incredibly detailed argument for why gender equality is important economically, not just morally.
What I loved most about this book was that it pushed me to see gender bias more clearly—it is so tangled up with power that decision makers are often willing to leave money on the table to protect the status quo.
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