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Season 2 ⤵
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In the last episode of The Pay Check, we explore the lasting legacy of a radical World War II-era experiment.
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More than 30 years of restricting births have left China with a demographic crisis.
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Until men are as involved in childcare as women, moms will continue to take a pay hit.
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Episode three of The Pay Check examines how the cost of childcare holds back women’s earning power. Is there a better way?
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On this week’s episode of The Pay Check, a look at pregnancy discrimination and why companies struggle to treat expectant moms fairly
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Bloomberg’s The Pay Check returns for an in-depth look at how motherhood explains so much of the $28 trillion global gender-pay gap
Season 1 ⤵
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In the first episode of The Pay Check, we go deep on pay discrimination. Host Rebecca Greenfield tells us about an equal pay fight in her own family. We take you inside a gender discrimination case that’s been unfolding at Goldman Sachs for over a decade. And we look at how companies magically make their pay gaps disappear—without actually paying women more
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Rebecca Greenfield talks to Claire Suddath about how a century of rules and laws saying what women can and can’t do have made it easy for companies to pay women less. Then Claire talks with Lilly Ledbetter, whose fight for gender equality at Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. seemed like an open and shut case—until a loophole in the law denied her justice.
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Skeptics say the gender pay gap is explained by choices women make about family and career. Rebecca Greenfield unpacks those arguments with the help of professors from Harvard and Georgetown. Then, Jordyn Holman goes inside a contract negotiation between Netflix and the comedian and actress Mo’Nique that went south.
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The U.K.’s big, nationwide experiment for pay equality just started. It’s already creating a big mess.
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After years of pay secrecy, Fog Creek has revealed the salaries of all its employees.
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Ladies Get Paid just wanted to help women get more money. Then it got sued.
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Sallie Krawcheck, a pioneer for women in finance, talks with up-and-comer Bianca Caban about the uncomfortable reality of being a woman in a male-dominated industry
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First we head to the competitive world of poker, where stakes are high and representation of women is low. Then we talk to journalists Manoush Zomorodi and Rose Eveleth talk about sexism in media and the difficulties of finding a mentor.