The Truth About the Wage Gap

Why does the wage gap persist, despite both legislation and a cultural shift that encourages women to participate in the workforce with the fervor of a thousand exploding suns? The gap has barely budged over the last decade or two, stagnating somewhere in the low 80% range.I had to crawl into some objectionable online spaces that are expressly “anti-women” to find out (so you don’t have to!)…and the consensus I found there was dizzying.I'm also joined by Ellevest's CEO Sallie Krawcheck—and, I have to say, this conversation is a must-listen.Transcripts can be found at podcast.moneywithkatie.com—Mentioned in the Episode Economic historian Claudia Goldin's work: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/....podcast/women-at-wor US Bureau of Labor Statistics data on the wage gap: https://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/2....022/median-earnings- BLS "time use studies": https://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/atus.pdf Harvard study on the dynamics of the gender wage gap: https://scholar.harvard.edu/fi....les/goldin/files/dyn US News ranking and methodology for countries and gender equality: https://www.usnews.com/news/be....st-countries/article Parental leave data from the Organization for Economic Cooperation & Development: https://www.oecd.org/els/soc/P....F2_1_Parental_leave_ BLS employment characteristics from 2022: https://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/famee.pdf Pew Research on stay-at-home parents in the 1970s: https://www.pewresearch.org/so....cial-trends/2014/04/ Cosmopolitan essay from Laura Kipnis on why maternal instincts are BS: https://www.cosmopolitan.com/s....ex-love/a37568/why-m
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