What's my wage again?

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🗓️ 10 April 2018

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Today is Equal Pay Day. Vox’s Sarah Kliff reveals the real reason why working women earn about 82% as much as men. Then Valerie Wilson of the Economic Policy Institute explains why things get a lot more complicated when race comes into play. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	My husband was telling me he's like,
0:02.8	I really like the ads on today, excellent.
0:05.6	Thank you.
0:06.5	He said the toothbrush ones have been his favorite.
0:08.8	So I was like, well, I'm more of a mattress firm partisan,
0:11.7	but he likes quip ads.
0:12.9	Does he want to be in some toothbrush ads?
0:14.7	Probably.
0:15.5	Yeah.
0:16.4	I think he'd be in a toothbrush ad.
0:17.8	Tell me his phone number.
0:18.7	I'll call it and we'll do toothbrush ads.
0:20.8	Gotta keep him fresh.
0:22.0	Fresh like your mouth after brushing with quip.
0:24.3	Exactly.
0:25.3	That's an ad.
0:26.3	Get quip.com slash explained.
0:28.1	Sh.
0:28.9	Record a good ad.
0:30.5	I work in financial services and as sometimes happens,
0:40.9	we were all out at a happy hour and one of the men on my team
0:44.6	that I was supervising sort of let slip what he was making
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