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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-sbis-Singapore. That's

Bloomberg.com slash sbs-sbs-singapore. Hey, it's me, Rebecca Greenfield, the host of the paycheck.

This spring, we took a hard look at the pay gap. It's history, why it still exists, and what's being done to fix it.

If there was one thing we wanted to achieve with our series,

it was to get people, especially women, talking.

And it worked.

After the show ended, the conversation didn't.

We heard from listeners who told us their own stories of pay discrimination and sexism.

And here at Bloomberg, we kept reporting on and talking about the pay gap and all the other issues

we discussed on the show. But we wanted to do more. We wanted to hear for ourselves the conversations

we know women are having with each other behind closed doors.

So we went out and found some of the smartest women we could think of who work in law, finance, medicine, and even competitive poker.

And then we asked them to talk to each other and let us listen in.

And it was great.

They talked about the particular challenges of starting a business as a woman,

why motherhood should be a job qualification, and how after decades of working, you can still feel

unqualified for a job. For the next few weeks, we're going to be bringing those conversations

to you. Think of it like a master class. First weeks, we're going to be bringing those conversations to you.

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