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The Daily Show: Ears Edition

The Pink Tax And Why It Costs More To Be a Woman | Beyond the Scenes

The Daily Show: Ears Edition

Comedy Central

News, Daily News, Comedy

4.214.2K Ratings

🗓️ 27 August 2023

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

The pink tax is a form of gender discrimination that can cost women an average of $1,400 or more a year. In this episode, host Roy Wood Jr. sits down with correspondent Desi Lydic, segment director Stacey Angeles, and Congresswoman Jackie Speier to discuss everyday examples of goods and services that cost women more, the economic impact of the pink tax, and the challenges of being a female consumer.   Original air date: March 8, 2022 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

You're listening to Comedy Central.

0:02.5

Hey, welcome to Beyond the Scenes.

0:13.1

This is the podcast that goes deeper into segments that originally aired on the daily

0:16.8

show with Trevor Noah.

0:18.4

Like, Beyond the Scenes, this is what you think about this podcast, this is what this podcast

0:21.5

is like.

0:22.5

Alright, like, you have a party, you go to the party, it's a good party.

0:25.2

After that party, you go to the hotel lobby and there's like at four o'clock in the morning

0:29.4

you eatin' greasy food, you eatin' waffle house, you tellin' all your deep dark secrets,

0:34.5

somebody start turkin' on top of the piano, then the hotel manager come on and be like,

0:38.4

how many of y'all actually stay at this hotel?

0:40.3

Let me be like, shit yo, hey NASA, then the police show, that's basically what this podcast

0:45.5

is.

0:46.5

Weird the party that happens after the original party that is the daily show.

0:50.9

I'm Roy Wood Jr., today we're going to be talking about the pink tax and the outsized

0:55.7

cost of just being a woman.

0:59.2

Let's play the clip.

1:00.8

Being a woman can cost you, apparently an average of $1,400 a year thanks to gender,

1:05.7

price discrimination.

1:07.2

If you're a woman just about everything cost you more, then similar products market it

1:11.9

for men.

1:12.9

It's called the pink tax.

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