Lawrence Gillum
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383 appearances
21 recordings
3 series
first heard Mar 2024
last heard 3d ago
Lawrence Gillum’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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For one, more people in their prime working age could enter the labor force.
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Existing workers could also become more productive.
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Otherwise, Mui says the economy could slow down.
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I'm Justin Ho for Marketplace.
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Throughout the 70s, 80s and 90s, the gender wage gap got narrower.
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Kate Bond, chief economist at the Institute for Women's Policy Research, says that was thanks to more women entering the workforce, broader minimum wage protections and better access to contraception.
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Bond says a lot of that progress was down to policy decisions by lawmakers, and by the 2000s and 2010s, it stalled.
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Then came the pandemic.
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Demand for low-wage labor spiked, so wages did too.
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But since the pandemic, the gap has started widening again.
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A lot of the job growth in the economy has shifted away from those lower wage positions that help boost women's average earnings, says Yana Rogers, a professor at Rutgers University.
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Also, Rogers says women are still disproportionately responsible for taking care of children and elders at home.
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That constraint is a bigger challenge for women now that many employers expect their workers to be back in the office, says Courtney Schubert, an economist with Macro Policy Perspectives.
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It's also a challenge for women in jobs that require long hours, including finance, law, and other high-paying professional services.
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Schubert says all of this is an even bigger hurdle for women now that inflation has been picking up again.
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As a result, women are more likely to cut back on spending.
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Alyssa Bronstein is an economics professor at Colorado State University.
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She says that's a problem because every dollar of women's income tends to have a bigger impact on the broader economy.
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And people with lower incomes tend to spend that money faster.
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In other words, a widening gender wage gap holds back the entire economy.
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