The economic case for LGBT equality : why fair and equal treatment benefits us all / M.V. Lee Badgett.
Material type:
TextSeries: Queer action/queer ideasPublisher: Boston : Beacon Press, [2020]Description: xvi, 228 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780807035603
- 0807035602
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
We know that homophobia adversely affects individuals in various ways, but economist M.V. Lee Badgett argues that in addition to moral and human rights reasons, we can now also make a financial argument for equality. Badgett proves that by moving towards LGBT equality we'll see organizations increase their bottom line and flourish countries's economies. Finding that homophobia and transphobia cost 1% or more of a country's GDP, Badgett expertly uses recent research and statics to analyze how these hostile practices and environments affect both the US and global economies.
LGBT rights remains a persistent and pertinent issue. The continued passing of discriminatory laws, people being fired from jobs for their sexual orientation and/or gender identity, harassment and bullying in school, violence and hate crimes on the streets, exclusion from intolerant families, and loss of health care all make it incredibly difficult to live a good life. Examining the consequences of anti-LGBT practices across multiple countries, including Canada, the UK, Australia, India and the Philippines, Badgett reveals the expensive repercussions to hate and discrimination, and how our economy loses when we miss out on the full benefit of inclusion.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Stigma and schools -- Employment : funnels, fences, and walls -- When stigma makes you sick -- Making the business case for LGBT equality -- The cost to economies : adding it up -- A way forward -- Strategies for realizing the gains from LGBT (and LGBTI) equality.
"Badgett offers some new ways of thinking to convert the many people who use their power to hurt LGBT people, whether in passing discriminatory laws, firing them from jobs, harassing them in school, beating them on the streets, failing to protect them from beatings, kicking them out of families, or depriving them of appropriate health care-in short, in excluding them from the core institutions that make it possible to live a good life. Understanding the economic cost of that homophobia and transphobia gives activists, businesses, development agencies, and policymakers a new tool that can help change lives"-- Provided by publisher.
Homophobia and transphobia cost 1% or more of a country's GDP. Badgett uses recent research and statistics to analyze how these hostile practices and environments affect both the US and global economies. She offers some new ways of thinking to convert the many people who use their power to hurt LGBT people, by excluding them from the core institutions that make it possible to live a good life. Understanding the economic cost of that homophobia and transphobia gives activists, businesses, development agencies, and policymakers a new tool that can help change lives. -- adapted from jacket and publisher info