'Why Aren't There More Women in Poker?'

The Pay Check

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Society & Culture, Business, Investing

4.4 • 630 Ratings

🗓️ 29 August 2018

⏱️ 29 minutes

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The Pay Check continues its conversations series. First, we hear from Annie Duke and Maria Konnikova about power dynamics and sexism in the ultra male dominated field of professional poker. Then, journalists Manoush Zomorodi and Rose Eveleth talk about sexism in media and the difficulties of finding a mentor.

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0:52.9	Welcome to the second installment of our conversation series about women, work, money, and sexism.
1:00.9	A lot of times when women talk about this stuff, we do it discreetly, over drinks or in text messages.
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1:10.3	First up is the world of competitive poker, where the stakes are high and the representation of women is low.
1:17.6	97% of poker players who are professional or men.
1:22.6	So male dominated. It's like super male dominated.
1:26.6	That's Annie Duke. In the 1990s, as poker was
1:29.8	breaking into the mainstream, she was one of the only women at the table. And she won the
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