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Episode 197: Understanding the Gender Pay Gap Pt. 1

Words & Numbers

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The Problem With Words and Numbers

People think they hear that women get paid 80 cents for every dollar men do. That's the sentence, right? And I should note, by the way, when I first started talking about this issue, it was 69 cents. The problem with that is that word discrimination has all kinds of issues. Even if there's very little or no discrimination in labor markets, it doesn't mean there isn't discrimination sexism in other places.

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