Coming Soon: The Pay Check Season 2
Prognosis: Misconception
Bloomberg
4.1 • 838 Ratings
🗓️ 5 April 2019
⏱️ 2 minutes
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Summary
The Pay Check is back for a second season! For the next six weeks, we’re going to dig into the number one reason women still make less money than men: Motherhood. Women start their careers earning just about the same as men do, but once they have their first kid, that pay gap grows to a chasm. This season, we’ll show you how this “motherhood penalty” plays out for real women, in real life and how it affects the global economy.
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| 0:00.0 | Are you looking for a new podcast about stuff related to money? |
| 0:05.3 | Well, today's your lucky day. |
| 0:07.1 | I'm Matt Levine. |
| 0:08.2 | And I'm Katie Greifeld. |
| 0:09.5 | And we are the hosts of Money Stuff, The Podcast. |
| 0:13.0 | Every Friday, we dive into the top stories about Wall Street, finance, and other stuff. |
| 0:17.9 | We have fun. We get weird, and we want you to join us. You can listen to |
| 0:22.0 | many stuff the podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 0:29.8 | I would love to be a full-time mom at some point, but I think the anxiety of what if I get |
| 0:36.6 | bored, what if I want to return to the workforce, |
| 0:40.3 | what does that even mean? What does that look like? |
| 0:43.3 | You know, as the morning anchor, viewers want to see a beauty queen, so I'm pregnant now. |
| 0:47.3 | I've gained like 40 pounds. I knew it would be an issue. |
| 0:52.3 | The paycheck is back for a second season. |
| 0:56.0 | And this time, we're talking about the one thing that hurts women's earnings more than |
| 1:01.0 | anything else. |
| 1:02.8 | Motherhood. |
| 1:03.7 | As I was campaigning for the Senate, I felt like I was leaving my daughter behind. |
| 1:07.1 | I learned the hard way that there is no work-life balance. |
| 1:13.4 | We're going to investigate what happens to women's paychecks, their lives, and the global |
| 1:18.2 | economy when women choose to have kids or don't. Wages have effectively remained flat. |
| 1:25.4 | While the cost of child care, |
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