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Women Are Not Men (Rebroadcast)

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Documentary, Society & Culture

4.632K Ratings

🗓️ 20 March 2014

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

In many ways, the gender gap is closing. In others, not so much. And that's not always a bad thing.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey podcast listeners, the episode you're about to hear is a re-broadcast.

0:06.5

One of our favorite and most popular episodes called Women Are Not Men.

0:10.2

Now usually, when we put out a rerun, we make up some story about how it's particularly

0:15.9

relevant to something going on in the world right now, but this week, honestly, I'm on

0:20.8

spring break with my kids who are eating crepes, touring a beer factory, watching some

0:25.3

soccer, we'll be back next week with a new show on Bitcoin, The Good, The Bad, and The

0:31.3

Ugly.

0:32.3

Talk to you then.

0:40.1

More than half of all college students in the US, about 57% are female.

0:45.6

As of January 2013, women were no longer bored from combat positions in the United States

0:51.3

military.

0:52.4

The male female income gap is tightening.

0:55.7

Women hold about 20% of the seats in both the US Senate and the House of Representatives,

1:00.2

the highest proportion ever.

1:02.8

Three of the last five secretaries of state were women.

1:06.6

One of them, Condoleezza Rice, recently became one of the first female members of Augusta

1:11.4

National Golf Club, one of the oldest and goodest good old boy clubs in America.

1:19.5

Many of the sexes has long been a goal and in many ways, that goal is being met.

1:25.6

But as you'll hear on this program, the variance between men and women on some dimensions

1:30.6

is still large.

1:32.7

In other words, women are not men.

1:41.7

In some ways, obvious and in other ways, less so, patents, for instance.

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