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This is Women's History Month, and today happens to be Equal Pay Day, March 12th,

which is how far into this year it's been calculated that women have had to work to earn what men earned in the previous calendar year.

That is, they earned it through December 31st. It took women until today

to earn as much. And with that as backdrop, we welcome now Josie Cox, author of a new book

called Women, Money, Power, the Rise and Fall of Economic Equality. Josie Cox is a journalist

who has worked for major news organizations

in Europe and the United States, including Reuters, the Wall Street Journal, and the Independent,

where she served as business editor. She's also got an MBA from the Columbia University

Business School and currently teaches at Columbia in the School of Professional Studies. Again,

the book is called Women, Money, Power,

the Rise and Fall of Economic Equality. Josie, thanks for coming on and congratulations on the book.

Welcome to WNYC. Thank you so much. Thank you for having me. On today being Equal Pay Day,

for people unfamiliar, can you say basically what it measures? Yes, exactly. So equal payday is the point in the year that it takes for women to have

earned the same amount of money, the average woman, I should say, in this country, as men

earned the previous year. So, you know, that effectively represents the gender pay gap, which is a

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