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Bonus: The Pay Check, a New Podcast

May 09, 20183 min
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It’s a big, expensive, global mystery. Why do women still make less money—a lot less—than men? In the US, the average woman makes 80 cents to every dollar a man makes. Launching May 9, the Pay Check is an in-depth investigation into what that 20 percent difference looks like. In this miniseries we'll show you how the gender pay gap plays out in real life. We'll hear from Lily Ledbetter, Mo’Nique, and a lot of other women who weren’t happy to be paid less. We'll find out what happens when a whole country tries to tackle the pay gap. And we'll talk to some women who are taking things into their own hands.

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If there's a gap, it's not twenty cents on the dollar. But if if that was in fact true, yes, of course that's not right. But it is true as as far as we know. That's that really is what the data shows. I think, yes, it is about the data show twenty cents on the dollar. Why do you think women make less money than men? I'm Rebecca Greenfield, and I'm hosting a new Bloomberg podcast called The Paycheck. Over six episodes, we're going to investigate a big, expensive, global mystery.

Why in women still make less money less than men? On the paycheck? We're going to show you what less looks like. I told him, my host, how to go to Birmingham, Alabama and bata charge with the equal and pull him a condition. But I will tell you if I'm dark, we will be in this spot for at least eight years. And they said, well, what time you won't delite? We'll hear from a lot of women who finally spoke out, I'm a fat black woman. People are really looking at me like, have you lost your mind?

You should just be grateful they let you in. You know, at some point you step away, you lift up your head and you realize that things are not right. Well, also dick into why the pay gaps still exists, and then we'll explore what's being done to fix it, what happens when a whole country takes on the paygap. You probably have a very different system from ours, and we'll see how some women are taking things into their own hands. You can subscribe to The Paycheck right now. That way

you won't miss a single episode. The Paycheck is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and anywhere else you listen to podcasts. The first episode comes out on May nine. We want you to help us tell this story too. Why do you think women make less money than men? Tell us your thoughts, Call and leave us a voicemail at two one to seven zero one. We'd love to have your voices on the show. Subscribe to The Paycheck today and we'll see you in a few weeks.

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