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🗓️ 20 March 2014
⏱️ 37 minutes
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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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