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The Persistence of Gender Inequality

Paperback • 2016 • 1. edition

The Persistence of Gender Inequality

By Mary Evans

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About the book

Despite centuries of campaigning, women still earn less and have less power than men. Equality remains a goal not yet reached. In this incisive account of why this is the case, Mary Evans argues that optimistic narratives of progress and emancipation have served to obscure long-term structural inequalities between women and men, structural inequalities which are not only about gender but also about general social inequality. In widening the lenses on the persistence of gender inequality, Evans s...Show more

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9780745689920

Publisher

Polity Press

Published year

2016

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The Persistence of Gender Inequality

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