World events demonstrate that equality for women isn't only a women's issue:
when women fulfil their potential, everyone benefits.
Completely updated and redesigned, this new edition of Joni Seager's
award-winning classic illustrates how women live across continents and
cultures, and charts the status of women worldwide - the advances they
have made and the distances still to be travelled.
With vivid graphics and pithy text, it is a comprehensive and accessible
analysis of up-to-the-minute global data on the key issues facing women
today.; Topics include:; Gender equality * Literacy and information technology * Feminism * Beauty
* Work and the global economy * Changing households * Domestic violence
* Refugees * LGBTQ rights * Government and power * Motherhood