Gender inequality shouldn't be a part of the free market. After all, surely the best person gets the job and is rewarded for their work. But from the gendered threat of robot labour to the lack of women in economics itself, Vicky Pryce, Chief Economic Adviser at the Centre for Economics and Business Research, uncovers the deeper side to this story. Without bold decisive action that radically changes contemporary capitalism, we will not achieve the equality that we desire.

On this course you shall learn:

• The Myth of Meritocracy in the Free Market

• Gender Inequality in Modern Capitalism

• The Gendered Impact of Automation and Robot Labour

• Underrepresentation of Women in Economics

• How to Achieve Change

By Vicky Pryce

• Pryce, V., It’s the Economy, Stupid, (London: Biteback Publishing, 2014).

Foundational Texts on Gender and Economics

• Criado Perez, C., Invisible Women: Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for Men, (London: Abrams, 2019).

• Waring, M., If Women Counted: A New Feminist Economics, (San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1988).

• Bates, L., Fix the System, Not the Women, (London: Simon & Schuster, 2021).

• Folbre, N., Who Pays for the Kids? Gender and the Structures of Constraint, (New York: Routledge, 1994).

• Berwick, I., Women, Work and Why We're Getting It All Wrong, (London: Penguin, 2021).

Broader Economic Perspectives

• Wilkinson, R. & Pickett, K., The Spirit Level: Why More Equal Societies Almost Always Do Better, (London: Allen Lane, 2009).