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🗓️ 2 August 2020
⏱️ 25 minutes
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In this week's Chops, Jen chats to Prof Linda Scott, internationally-renowned expert on women's economic development and author of hit new book The Double X Economy. They chat about women's spending power, who advertising is really aimed at and if the gender pay gap isn't all a massive ploy to keep mothers at home. Tuck in!
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0:00.0 | Attention at all passengers. You can now book your train tickets on Uber and get 10% back in Uber credits to spend on your next train journey. |
0:11.0 | So no excuses not to visit your in-laws this Christmas. |
0:16.5 | Trains now on Uber. T's and C's apply check the Uber app. Standard Issue for all women. |
0:35.0 | Hello Jen here to tell you about this episode of the Sunday Chops. |
0:39.0 | In this episode I chat to Professor Linda Scott, Emeritus Professor at the University of Oxford. |
0:47.4 | Linda is also the author of New Book The Double X Economy, which is about we are not playing or indeed paying fair |
0:55.6 | when it comes to women in the economy. And guys, guess what? Economics, it's not that |
1:01.0 | dry after all. This is an absolutely fascinating chat and it is a mind-blowing |
1:06.3 | book. So please do check it out if you get the chance and I do hope you enjoy listening to this |
1:11.5 | chat. I am joined |
1:15.0 | I am joined via Zoom by Linda Scott, |
1:19.0 | a Maritus Professor at the University of Oxford |
1:21.0 | and also founder of the Double X Economy, which is a consulting firm, |
1:26.3 | and also the title of your new book. Linda, thank you very much for joining me. |
1:31.1 | Thank you for inviting me. Oh, thank you for inviting. |
1:33.4 | Can you tell us a bit about what the book is about to kick off with? |
1:37.0 | The book is meant to be a call to action |
1:39.7 | on behalf of women and the economy around the world. It is both trying to make people |
1:46.4 | understand that we can have more economic growth if we include women better |
1:51.7 | that there will be more prosperity, but also to call people's attention to the extreme costs, social costs and human suffering that occurs because women are excluded. |
2:03.0 | So it's a call to action on both counts. |
2:05.0 | Unequal pay costs the global economy |
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