Welcome to the podcast Think Biblically, conversations on faith and culture.

I'm your host Scott Ray, Dean of Faculty and Professor of Christian Ethics at

Talbot School of Theology here at Bihler University.

We're here with a special guest today, Dr. Angela Dills, who is professor of economics and

holds the Gimelstab Landry Distinguished Professor, Chair in Regional Economic Development.

That's kind of a mouthful to say at Western Carolina University.

And you've been at Western Carolina for how long?

I've been at Western Carolina for three years.

Three years. Okay. And you're one of the things that you have specialized in is the area of economic inequality, particularly as it concerns the gender gap or the presumed gender gap, pay gap between men and

women in the workplace. So I thank you for coming on with us and really

appreciate your expertise in this and the chance to talk about a very

controversial subject. I'm happy to be here thank you. So given Angela this is

such a controversial subject let's let's start with the facts. Okay, so what do we know about the

connection between gender and wages? So spell out the facts for us.

So most people have probably heard a statistic like women earn 80 cents for every dollar that a man makes.

The number last year was 81.8 percent. So women on average earn 81.8 percent of what a man earns. And the way they come up with that number is what they're looking at is among all full-time

full-year workers.

They're going to take the median man and compare the median man to the median woman.

Okay, now spell out what you mean by the median man to the median woman. Okay, now spell out what you mean by the median.

Great. So to find the median man, they're going to take all the male full-time full-year

workers, they're going to line them up from lowest earning to highest earning, and they take the person in the middle.

So the median man earns more than 50% of all men, and less than 50% of all men.

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