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TRIGGERnometry

The Truths and Myths of the Gender Pay Gap

TRIGGERnometry

Konstantin Kisin & Francis Foster

News, Politics, Society & Culture

4.62.6K Ratings

🗓️ 24 December 2018

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

We've hand picked our favourite bits of fascinating conversation from Season 1 on the subject of the gender pay gap. The following fantastic guests feature in this episode: - Dr Diana Fleischman - Andrew Doyle - Kate Andrews - Dr Joanna Williams Support TRIGGERnometry: https://www.subscribestar.com/triggernometry https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr... Find us on Social Media: https://twitter.com/triggerpod https://www.facebook.com/triggerpod https://www.instagram.com/triggerpod About TRIGGERnometry: Stand-up comedians Konstantin Kisin (@konstantinkisin) and Francis Foster (@failinghuman) make sense of politics, economics, free speech, AI, drug policy and WW3 with the help of presidential advisors, renowned economists, award-winning journalists, controversial writers, leading scientists and notorious comedians.

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0:00.0

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0:07.0

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0:11.5

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0:14.0

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0:18.0

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0:20.0

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0:22.0

You must be signed into the same Google account on both your phone and Chromebook. Hello and this is the show for you.

0:35.0

I'm Francis Foster.

0:37.0

I'm Constantine Kitten.

0:38.0

And this is the show for you if you're bored of people arguing on the internet

0:42.0

over subjects they know nothing about.

0:44.0

At trigonometry, we don't pretend to be the experts, we ask the experts. So what can you tell us about the impact of the differences between men and women on things

0:59.1

like the real world stuff like the gender payipaga for example.

1:03.0

So this talk wasn't recorded.

1:06.0

I probably should record it at some point, but I gave a talk for the Adam Smith Institute

1:10.0

back in December and I talked a little bit about where this kind of wage gap comes from.

1:14.0

And I hope I get all the details of the study right, but they were looking at people who scored very high on quantitative measures like the SAT,

1:22.0

men and women who scored very, very high and they were looking at this kind of elite intellectual group.

1:27.0

And they asked the men and the women in this group, how many hours a week would you work optimally if you were you know if you had your druthers

1:34.6

which I don't know what druthers are but they are a thing that you can have so if you

1:39.2

had your druthers how much you know how many hours a week would you work and I I think far fewer women, it's like 30 or 40 percent fewer women,

1:46.0

said that they would work more than 40 hours a week.

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