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299. Richard Reeves — Of Boys and Men: Why the Modern Male Is Struggling, Why It Matters, and What to Do About It

The Michael Shermer Show

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Is There a Gender Pay Gap?

Women still earn 79 cents on the dollar or 89 cents. But that's just on average, taken across the board. So you're talking about specific kinds of jobs and careers where these differences have shifted. The male and female wage distribution used to look quite different, but they now look quite similar. And so you've seen this extraordinary catching up by women of men,. in part because a lot of men have gone backwards - which is not maybe the ideal way to get to equality.

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