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The Sex Factor: How Women Made the West Rich by Victoria Bateman
Victoria Bateman argues that it is women who have been the drivers of economic growth under capitalism
CHRIS SEARLE recommends a work of love and deep admiration for a great musician
KENNY MacASKILL relishes a fictionalised account of the life and death of the principled Irish anti-colonialist, executed for betraying his English imperial masters
FIONA O’CONNOR admires an ambitious first novel that loosens South Africa’s rainbow collective to examine the racial tensions within
Aussie mining corporation murder, Liverpudlian ex-cop amnesia, a naive vigilante tries to reset capitalism, and the riddle of the dead psychoanalyst
SYLVIA HIKINS is persuaded by an entertaining play that the true miracle of Lourdes would be for attitudes toward disability to change
IN THIS book, Victoria Bateman peels away the layers of traditional economics to reveal her answers to some pressing issues of our time and in the process argues that we all must revaluate the role of women historically and today in terms of how they’ve contributed to economic growth and prosperity.
She contends that all too often women are seen as passive beneficiaries rather than active creators in economic growth.
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