Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
Foreword
Acknowledgments
1. Introduction
2. Gender Discrimination at Work
3. Equal Rights at Work for Women Must Mean All Women
4. Why Ending Sexual Harassment Is Integral to Ending Gender
Discrimination
5. Putting Nondiscrimination into Practice: Realizing the Promise
of Gender Equality Laws
6. How Laws and Policies Reinforce Inequality in Caring for
Children
7. How the Law’s Neglect of Caregiving across the Life Course Fuels
Inequality
8. Education: Investing in Girls to Advance Equality
Long-Term
9. Civil Society as a Powerful Source for Change
10. Achieving Gender Equality in the Economy in Our
Lifetimes
Index
Jody Heymann is Founding Director of the WORLD Policy
Analysis Center; Distinguished Professor at the UCLA School of
Public Affairs, School of Public Health, and School of Medicine;
and an elected member of the National Academy of Sciences.
Aleta Sprague is Senior Legal Analyst at the WORLD Policy
Analysis Center and an attorney with over a decade of experience
working on social policy and inequality.
Amy Raub is Principal Research Analyst at the WORLD Policy
Analysis Center and an economist with two decades of experience
working on discrimination and inequality.
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