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Women vs Capitalism: Why We Can’t Haveit All in a Free Market Economy

Author: Vicky Price

Hurst Publishers, London, 2019, pp. 360

Distinguished British economist Vicky Pryce examines how discrimination against women is built into the free market system, both in terms of the pay gap, glass ceiling and obstacles to entering work; and also in the implications of the growing role of robots. She argues that equality for women requires ‘radical changes to contemporary capitalism’.