Coming Soon: The Pay Check Season 2

The Pay Check is back for a second season! For the next six weeks, we’re going to dig into the number one reason women still make less money than men: Motherhood. Women start their careers earning just about the same as men do, but once they have their first kid, that pay gap grows to a chasm. This season, we’ll show you how this “motherhood penalty” plays out for real women, in real life and how it affects the global economy.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
I would love to be a full time mom at
some point, but I think the anxiety of what if
I get bored? What if I want to return to
the workforce, What does that even mean? What does that
look like? You know, as the morning anchor, viewers want
to see a beauty queen. So I'm pranktic now I've
gained like forty pounds. I knew it would be an issue.

(00:22):
The Paycheck is back for a second season, and this
time we're talking about the one thing that hurts women's
earnings more than anything else, motherhood. As I was campaigning
for the Senate, I felt like I was leaving my
daughter behind. I learned the hard way that there is
no work life balance. We're going to investigate what happens

(00:45):
to women's paychecks, their lives, and the global economy when
women choose to have kids or don't. Wages have effectively
remained flat, while the cost of childcare it has gone
up nearly a thousand per cent, and it does lead
young people to have a legitimate question, is it okay

(01:06):
to still have children? The Paychecks new season starts April ten.
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