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50. Making a Difference During Wartime

Shit You Don't Learn in School

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The Supply Is Not Just With the Gender Pay Gap

I think this was actually a big aha moment for me. It is a topic that i care about, to equalize pay between genders. I want to be clear that there is some gender discrimination. But if we really want to focus on solving the problem, these initiatives should move the needle more than perhaps other initiatives which may sound better but are less impactful. In rowanda, they gave six months leave to both mothers and fathers. And so now in iceland, it's culturally and socially expected that a manho you're going to hire will take time off from work when their kid is born.

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