Equal Pay Day: Closing the Gender Pay Gap with Katica Roy
Work in Progress with Sophia Bush
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4.6 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 31 March 2020
⏱️ 82 minutes
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Summary
March 31st, 2020 is Equal Pay Day. This date symbolizes how far into the year women must work to earn what men earned in the previous year. Katica Roy, a gender economist and the CEO and founder of Pipeline, joins Sophia to break this all down. Katica shares her own story of what happened when she found out she was being paid less than her male counterparts, explains the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, the implications of the lack of gender equity in newsrooms, the steps we need to take to finally close the pay gap, and more.
Executive Producers: Sophia Bush & Sim Sarna
Supervising Producer: Allison Bresnick
Associate Producer: Caitlin Lee
Editors: Josh Windisch and Matt Sasaki
Music written by Jack Garratt and produced by Mark Foster
Artwork by Kimi Selfridge
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| 0:00.0 | Hi everyone, Sophia Bush here and I am thrilled to tell you about the new original audio |
| 0:06.4 | book that I was lucky enough to narrate, called Wild and Precious, a celebration of Mary |
| 0:13.0 | Oliver. This unique collection includes poems read by Oliver herself, in addition to |
| 0:18.9 | readings and personal recollections by artists and fans like Carmen Maria Machado, Rosque, |
| 0:25.5 | Susan Cain, Busy Phillips, Rain Wilson and me. You can pre-order Wild and Precious at pushkin.fm |
| 0:33.1 | or wherever audio books are sold. I'm Katie Curric, on our new season of my podcast |
| 0:39.2 | next question, we're going to try something a little bit different. This time around, |
| 0:44.0 | we're talking all about resilience. Courage in the face of a person. Digging deeper. |
| 0:49.9 | Why feel stronger? It's finding strength within. Think of this show as a tool kit to help |
| 0:55.0 | you navigate this crazy world we live in. We're digging deep into something psychologists |
| 1:00.5 | are now calling post-traumatic growth. I am really excited for us to explore all these |
| 1:10.3 | things together. Listen to next question with Katie Curric on the iHeart Radio app, Apple |
| 1:15.4 | Podcast or wherever you get your podcasts. I'm Brooke Shields, and my podcast Now What is |
| 1:24.8 | all about life's defining moments. Those times when you take a good hard look at your reality |
| 1:30.6 | and ask, Now What do I do? It was very controversial to be gay and my agent didn't know if I should |
| 1:37.2 | take the job because what if people find out that you're gay? Each week I sit down with |
| 1:41.8 | the guest to talk about the moments that changed their lives. Folks like Monica Lewinsky, |
| 1:46.8 | Jenny Sleet, Stacey Abrams and Rosio Donald. I could have ended up just bitter and that |
| 1:52.6 | hasn't happened. Binge Now What with Brooke Shields on the iHeart Radio |
| 1:56.3 | app or wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 2:11.3 | If you're listening to this episode on the date it comes out March 31st, it is equal |
| 2:16.1 | payday. This date, three months into 2020 symbolizes on average how far into the year women |
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