• Parenting: A Social Science Perspective - Unequal Childhoods: Class, Race and Family Life by Annette Lareau
  • Parenting: A Social Science Perspective - How Children Succeed. Grit, Curiosity and the Hidden Power of Character by Paul Tough
  • Parenting: A Social Science Perspective - Intelligence and How To Get It: Why Schools and Culture Count by Richard E. Nisbett
  • Parenting: A Social Science Perspective - Promises I Can Keep: Why Poor Women Put Motherhood before Marriage by Kathryn Edin & Maria Kefalas
  • Parenting: A Social Science Perspective - Expecting Better: Why the Conventional Pregnancy Wisdom is Wrong and What You Really Need to Know by Emily Oster

Parenting: A Social Science Perspective, recommended by Nate G. Hilger

We think of parenting as a level playing field because loving your kids and doing everything you can for them comes naturally and isn’t determined by socio-economic status. The problem is that it may not be enough, says economist Nate G. Hilger. Here, he argues for a more activist approach so that kids across society have an equal opportunity to do well in life.

  • The best books on Gender Inequality - Women vs Capitalism: Why We Can't Have It All in a Free Market Economy by Vicky Pryce
  • The best books on Gender Inequality - Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men by Caroline Criado Perez
  • The best books on Gender Inequality - Sex and World Peace by Bonnie Ballif-Spanvill, Chad Emmett, Mary Caprioli & Valerie Hudson
  • The best books on Gender Inequality - Delusions of Gender by Cordelia Fine
  • The best books on Gender Inequality - Greed, Lust and Gender: A History of Economic Ideas by Nancy Folbre

The best books on Gender Inequality, recommended by Linda Scott

Women produce about 40% of global GDP and more than half of the world’s food. But their economic and social contribution has too often gone unrecorded—subsumed into ‘household earnings’ or otherwise disregarded. Here, the Oxford academic and author of The Double X Economy Linda Scott selects five of the best books on gender inequality, and reveals how the empowerment of women might just be the route to world peace.