Lawrence Gillum
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370 appearances
20 recordings
3 series
first heard Mar 2024
last heard 11 Sep
Lawrence Gillum’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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big problem with the gender wage gap, it discourages some women from even being in the labor force.
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Nicole Servey is an economist with Wells Fargo.
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She says anyone who wants to enter the workforce has to know they'll earn enough money to make it worth working, enough to pay for child care or elder care.
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So some women decide that getting a job just isn't worth it.
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That means there is a lot of untapped potential out there, Servi says from the perspective of an employer that's untapped productivity.
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Skilled workers who could be boosting output, but aren't.
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The gender pay gap also has an outsized impact on those care industries I mentioned a few seconds ago.
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That's Chloe Gibbs, a senior economist at the W.
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Upjohn Institute for Employment Research.
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She says care work, surprise, surprise, also tends to be underpaid.
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And as a result, the care industry sees a lot of churn as workers find better paying jobs or drop out of the workforce.
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Problem is, care work is infrastructure that supports the entire economy because it allows people to go to work and be productive.
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So when the care industry is unstable because it can't find workers.
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And when parents can't find that stability, mothers are more likely than fathers to drop out of the labor force.
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The gender
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Stephanie Seguino, an economics professor at the University of Vermont.
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She says women tend to spend a much higher percentage of their income on their kids.
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So when women earn less than men, children
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Seguino says, limits economic growth for generations.
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