Pearl Savagely DESTROYS The Wage Gap
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Summary
In this episode, we discuss the pay gap between men and women in the U.S. and what it means to be a feminist. What are the barriers to equality, and how can we overcome them? We also talk about the role of women in society and how they should be included in the conversation.
Transcript
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You're just going to ignore the pay gap, regulation over our bodies.
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The pay gap has been just proven and debunked endlessly, my friend.
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There's a pay gap, but it's because women don't want to do the hardest industries.
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I think the fact of the matter is that women structure their lives differently to men.
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Men don't have to be the primary caregiver most of the time.
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Men also don't hold jobs for as long as men do.
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The way that men work and women work are astronomically different.
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And to try to say that they're comparable is where this issue comes from.
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First of all, let's dig into why they think that they should take these jobs, which is
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And then also, actually, I mean, Department of Labor, all statistics, at least speaking
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in the U.S., have found that when compared for the same jobs, there still is a pay gap,
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Because 60 percent of women have never asked for a raise.
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So how can you complain about your pay if you don't ask?
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I've been wanting to say something, but I want to be respectful.
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I don't want to interrupt people, and I want to let them finish their thoughts.
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It is a very privileged label to be able to say that you're feminist.
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And I say that because I come from a working-class background of Dominican immigrant parents.
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My mother would not necessarily identify as a feminist.
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I look to my mother, and I do think of her as a feminist.
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A lot of my ideas and my empowerment comes from seeing her, like, survive and put food
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When I'm thinking about feminism, I'm always thinking about who's not part of the conversation.
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How do we think about self-empowerment and agency and having a voice, right, and having choice,
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and thinking about our basic human rights—education, access to health, homes, like having bread,
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And they're at the crux, right, of what a lot of us here know that we need.
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It's like there are the barriers, right, that we constantly ignore that are very much systemic
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I want to know what barriers in the U.S. today as a woman.
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I just feel like your question is kind of hostile when you're like, there are no barriers
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That means you have the privilege where you're not facing any friction and that's
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I think as an American, you're very privileged.
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Or like a basic level of what, I mean, the feminist movement is when it comes to just
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Physically, pound for pound, we are born as women and we have less lean muscle mass than
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So there are issues of violence and assault and stuff like that.
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And so, therefore, there are policies, there are things to help women physically.
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Like, for example, I believe, being able to carry a firearm and being able to use that
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safely to defend yourself against men who are born naturally with more muscle mass than
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Like, would it be 50% of everyone in the same jobs?
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So equity is generally described as a state of fairness, because historically, a lot of
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Like, 0.5 of the 1% being woman, this doesn't really do anything for us.
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And so people have talked about equity instead, which is instead of sameness, it's fairness.
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And this would mean that we remove systemic barriers to engage in society, not just for women,
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What does it do for you to have a bunch of ramps in your life?
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It's kind of proving the point of why what people, especially black women, other people
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who are anybody who's not white, why we hear feminism and we don't want that label
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because it means, I'm just going to say, it means that.
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Like it means that you've already gone to a pinnacle of whatever you think your happiness
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And there are people on lower end who are trying to survive, who are trying to get to a point
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of what should be normal based on what other people have.
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It sort of sounds like you're saying feminism is not always inclusive then.
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So within the just feminism space, again, obviously the very basic is male versus female versus,
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but unfortunately we've only had one subset of women be the face and voice and the academics
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and research and everything to be able to say, well, that's the standard we need to be in
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when there are other people who are still trying to get to some type of normalcy and just living.
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