It's the Brian Layer Show on WNYC. Good morning again everyone. This is Women's History Month and today happens to be equal pay day, March 12th, which is how far into this year it's been calculated that women have had to work

to earn what men earned in the previous calendar year. That is they earned it

through December 31st. It took women until today to earn as much.

And with that as backdrop, we welcome now Josie Cox,

author of a new book called Women Money Power,

The Rise and Fall of Economic Equality.

Josie Cox is a journalist who has worked for major news organizations in Europe and the

United States, including Reuters, the Wall Street Journal, and the Independent, where she served as business

editor.

She's also got an MBA from the Columbia University Business School and currently teaches

at Columbia in the School of Professional Studies.

Again, the book is called Women, Money, Power,

the rise and fall of economic equality.

Josie, thanks for coming on and congratulations on the book.

Welcome to WNYC.

Thank you so much.

Thank you for having me.

On today being Equal Pay Day for people unfamiliar,

can you say basically what it measures?

Yes, exactly.

So Equal Pay Day is the point in the year that it takes for women

to have earned the same amount of money, the average woman I should say in this country, as men earned the previous year. So you know that

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