Standing Up To The Brotherhood
No matter how much the “family values” crowd wishes for women to “return home where they belong”, Linda Scott, renown expert on women’s economy and author of The Double X Economy, knows women’s economic empowerment has traversed past the point of no return. It is - in every way - too late. It is too late to force women out of the market economy and back into the private, domestic sphere - without widespread damage to all of society. Notable, a fact that is not stopping patriarchs from trying to shove women backwards.
In founding the concept of The Double X Economy, Linda revealed how women have been economically subjugated across the world and throughout history, demonstrating through extensive data and on-the-ground research, how women have been systematically excluded from the entire financial order. Linda opens our eyes to the economic injustices women are subjected to around the globe, from corporate offices to rural farms, far beyond being denied paid work or being exploited for unpaid labor.
In this episode, Elle talks to Linda about patriarchy’s most powerful and enduring tool used to keep women out of power and away from agency - economic exclusion - and why it is that gender inequality is such a bad economic strategy, and gender equality is a perfect recipe for success - regardless of culture.
We talk about the far-reaching consequences of shutting women out, as well as the equally far-reaching positive impacts of lifting the constraints on women, also about our Chimpanzee-Bonobo deep past, our very dark present, and the exciting new project Linda is working on.
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Professor of Gender and Economics & Author of The Double X Economy
Linda Scott is Emeritus DP World Professor of Entrepreneurship and Innovation, University of Oxford. Currently, she is a visiting professor at Brown University, where she has been teaching gender and economics for eight years. She is author of The Double X Economy, an exhaustive analysis of women’s place in the world economy that has been published in 14 languages. Her career has included multiple research partnerships with governments, international agencies, global NGOs, and many multinational corporations. In addition, she has been a consultant for both the World Bank and Chatham House, the Royal Institute of International Affairs, and was recognized as a top 25 global thinker by Prospect magazine.