The Gender Pay Gap

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4.6 • 924 Ratings

🗓️ 21 September 2018

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Aileen Rizo was working as a math consultant at the Fresno County Office of Education when she discovered a recently-hired male colleague was being paid significantly more than her for the same work. Aileen had more experience and education than this colleague. What then began as a fight for herself quickly turned into a fight for equality for women everywhere.

Aileen talked about the tough decisions she's made for herself and her family on a recent episode of the WBEZ podcast The Trouble. On this week’s Nerdette, you’ll hear that exceptional episode of The Trouble in full, followed by a conversation between Shannon Cason, host of The Trouble, and Nerdette’s Greta Johnsen.

Plus, a suggestion for you, dear listener: Ask for a raise.

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0:38.4	NERDETT is a show where we talk to your favorite or soon to be favorite people. This week we're doing something a little different. Think of it
0:43.9	as like a podcast listening party. We are going to chat with Shannon Kaysen and then listen to his
0:50.8	WBEZ podcast. It is called The Trouble. Shannon, welcome to Nurdette. Hey, what's going on, Greta? Not a lot. How are you doing?
1:00.9	You know, I'm living. I'm living. I'm doing my thing. That's the spirit. So tell me a little about the trouble. For people who haven't heard it, what is the deal?
1:09.1	The trouble is talking to people. So as an interview show,
1:13.4	I'll talk to people who've gotten in trouble, maybe they're still in trouble, and we talk it out.
1:19.3	You know, I tell stories and most of my stories, I try to be honest and many times in life you get
1:27.1	in trouble, at least in my life. And I'll try to be
1:30.1	honest with people and hopefully they'll be honest back and we talk it out. And you guys are back
1:35.5	with the new season. There's a recent episode that caught my eye, especially because it's about
1:40.9	the gender pay gap. It's called 79 cents because, you know,
1:46.3	I think a lot of people are familiar with that statistic
1:48.3	that like the typical woman makes 79 cents
1:51.3	on the dude's dollar.
1:54.2	And I wonder, I was curious,
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