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A warming planet, complex geopolitics and fierce competition means business operations are under more scrutiny than ever before.

Returning to Singapore this July, the Bloomberg Sustainable Business Summit is uniting leaders and investors

to explore how sustainability efforts can bolster resilience

and mitigate risk. Learn more at Bloomberg.com slash sbsd-singapore. That's Bloomberg

live.com slash sbs dash Singapore. If there's a gap, it's not 20 cents on the dollar.

But if that was, in fact, true?

Yes, of course. That's not right.

But it is true.

As far as we know, that really is what the data shows, I think.

Yes, it is.

What the data show.

20 cents on the dollar.

Why do you think women make less money than men?

I'm Rebecca Greenfield, and I'm hosting a new Bloomberg podcast called The Paycheck.

Over six episodes, we're going to investigate a big, expensive, global mystery.

Why in 2018, women still make less money, 20% less, than men.

On the paycheck, we're going to show you what 20% less looks like.

I told my husband, I have to go to Birmingham, Alabama, and file a charge with an equal

employment commission.

But I will tell you, if I start, we will be in this fight for at least eight years.

And he said, well, what time you want to leave?

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