BOOK EVENT: The Double Tax - Anna Gifty Opoku-Agyeman & Anna Malaika Tubes

WHO & WHAT: Join Rep Club for a discussion on with author Anna Gifty Opoku-Agyeman & moderator Anna Malaika Tubes

WHEN: Doors at 6:30pm, event promptly at 7pm.

WHERE: Reparations Club, 3054 S. Victoria Ave. Los Angeles, CA 90016

HOW:

TICKET w/ BOOK: This ticket guarantees a seat including a signed book available for pick up at the event.

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About the Book:

WHY IS IT SO EXPENSIVE TO BE A WOMAN IN AMERICA? FROM A RISING STAR IN ECONOMICS COMES THE FIRST COMPREHENSIVE LOOK AT THE COSTS WOMEN FACE AND WHY THE BILL RUNS ESPECIALLY HIGH FOR WOMEN OF COLOR—WITH A FOREWORD BY CHELSEA CLINTON.The “pink tax” has gained widespread recognition in recent years, but what happens when you look at the costs that define a woman’s entire life, especially across racial lines?In The Double Tax, Harvard researcher Anna Gifty Opoku-Agyeman summarizes the disparities that women face as they navigate life’s biggest moments. Not only do the numbers reveal that women incur higher costs than men, but also that Black and white women lead vastly different lives, marked by dramatic gaps in job opportunities, salaries, housing costs, childcare access, and generational wealth. She coins this gap as the “double tax,” the compounded cost of racism and sexism.Through rigorous research and interviews with women across the country, Opoku-Agyeman calculates the extra money, time, and effort that women are expected and forced to pay at every stage of their life.While the evidence may be discouraging, The Double Tax offers actionable solutions for how everyday people, local communities, and global leaders alike can help relieve women of these costs for good. Only by understanding where the gaps are and where the double tax arises can we begin to even the playing field for all.

Anna Gifty Opoku-Agyeman is a doctoral candidate at Harvard Kennedy School studying public policy and economics. She is a doctoral fellow for the National Science Foundation, Ford Foundation, Center for Black Entrepreneurship, Russell Sage Foundation, Roosevelt Institute, and Stone Program in Wealth Distribution, Inequality & Social Policy and a graduate affiliate at Harvard Kennedy School's Women and Public Policy Center and the Institute for Quantitative Science.

Her first book, The Black Agenda: Bold Solutions for a Broken System (2022), is the first trade publication to exclusively feature Black scholars and experts across economics, education, health, climate, criminal justice, and technology. She also co-founded #BlackBirdersWeek in 2019 and The Sadie Collective in 2018—the first non-profit addressing the underrepresentation of Black women in economics and related fields.

The youngest recipient of the CEDAW Women's Rights Award from the United Nations Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination Against Women—an honor previously given to Vice President Kamala Harris—her writing and commentary appear in TIME, Bloomberg, NPR, and The New York Times. In 2023, she was selected to be part of the inaugural Forbes 30 under 30 Boston cohort. Her forthcoming book, The Double Tax, will be published by Penguin/Portfolio in September 2025. The book is the first to explore the costs women face and shows why the bill runs higher for women of color.

Anna Malaika Tubbs is a 2x New York Times bestselling author and multidisciplinary expert on current and historical understandings of race, gender, and equity. With a Ph.D. in Sociology and a Masters in Multidisciplinary Gender Studies from the University of Cambridge in addition to a Bachelors in Medical Anthropology from Stanford University, Anna translates her academic knowledge into stories that are clear and engaging. Her articles have been published by TIME Magazine, New York Magazine, CNN, The Guardian, and others. Her first book The Three Mothers: How the Mothers of MLK Jr, Malcolm X, and James Baldwin Shaped a Nation came out in 2021, her second book Erased: What American Patriarchy Has Hidden From Us came out in May of this year. Anna’s storytelling also takes form in her talks, including her TED Talk that has been viewed 2 million times, as well as the scripted and unscripted screen projects she has in development. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband and their three kids.

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