Equality within Our Lifetimes

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.

• ContentsList 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

"This volume is an essential contribution to the analysis of women’s economic equality around the world and the steps required to move closer to that important objective."