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The Pay Check

Bloomberg

Society & Culture, Business, Investing

4.4 • 630 Ratings

🗓️ 15 May 2019

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

During World War II, the influx of women workers into the workforce solved one problem—the labor shortage—while creating another: Who would watch the kids? To address it, the U.S. government created high-quality, publicly-funded childcare centers for working moms. In this season’s final episode of The Pay Check, we explore the long term effects of this brief government experiment. We ask what it would take, short of a war, to generate a similar groundswell of public support for mothers in the workforce. And we question the assumption that mothers alone are responsible for creating the infrastructure that enables them to work.

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0:00.0	This is an IHeart podcast.
0:04.3	The data that matters for your investments.
0:07.2	The entire auto sector is higher today.
0:09.6	And analysis on the companies making news on Wall Street.
0:12.8	Tesla's been a stock that's been in focus.
0:14.3	Shares have really been all over the math this morning.
0:16.5	Listen to the Stock Movers report from Bloomberg.
0:19.4	Let's talk about some other decliners.
0:21.5	It's your short audio report on the day's winners and losers in the stock market.
0:25.8	Second biggest driver in terms of points for the S&P 500.
0:28.9	Subscribe to the stock movers report on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen.
0:37.3	I've spent the last few weeks listening to a lot of moms.
0:41.1	Moms from all over the world with kids of all ages who work in all sorts of different jobs
0:46.5	and industries.
0:48.0	Each has cobbled together their own system to make their lives, their kids, their
0:52.4	relationships, their jobs work. So if there's a doctor's appointment, their kids, their relationships, their jobs, work.
0:55.2	So if there's a doctor's appointment, preschool function, et cetera, I will move meetings
0:59.8	around in order to accommodate those.
1:02.5	I decided to work part-time now so that I could spend more time with the kids.
1:08.6	I work from home, so my family responsibility is never really stopped.
1:12.5	I have been able to balance my workload by scheduling things like conference calls,
1:16.8	trainings, or presentations around my daughter's nap times.
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