Podcast: The Pay Check

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Season 4 ⤵

Episode 8: How a Worker-Owned Business Model in Spain Is Keeping Inequality in Check

By Jeannette Neumann

Interest in the Mondragon Corporation's time-tested model has surged during the pandemic.

Dr. Liu Thai Ker, MORROW's Founding Chairman and widely recognised as the "Architect of Modern Singapore". Photographed in Singapore, 9th June 2022. Photographer:Lauryn Ishak

Episode 7: The Man Who Helped Create Singapore’s Housing Boom Is Getting Worried

By Faris Mokhtar

Liu Thai Ker helped design modern Singapore. Now property prices have surged so much, even he is worried.

Episode 6: Mexico’s Covid Response Led to the Deaths of New Mothers

By Kelsey Butler

Maternal mortality rates have spiked across the country since the beginning of the pandemic.

Episode 5: Larry Ellison’s Lanai Isn’t for You—or the People Who Live There

By Sophie Alexander The Oracle billionaire is making his Hawaiian island more hospitable to the super-rich and pushing out families that have been there for generations.

Episode 4: Trillions at Stake in India as Women Disappear From Workforce

By Ronojoy Mazumdar and Archana Chaudhary

A small fraction of women in India had formal employment before the pandemic. Covid made it so much worse.

Episode 3: Set Back a Generation, the Lost Girls of Covid Fight to Regain Ground

By Jill Filipovic

After a surge in teen pregnancies during the pandemic, community-based programs are stepping in to help girls manage their lives and re-enroll in school.

Episode 2: How Cash Payments Changed Low-Income Americans’ Lives

By Sarah Holder and Susan Berfield

Cash was key to tackling US inequality during Covid-19. But for women who received monthly guaranteed income, it was far more than a pandemic stopgap.

Episode 1: The Countries That Avoided a Pandemic Inequality Disaster

By Ben Steverman and Enda Curran

Covid has threatened decades of economic progress. Some places have blunted the damage.

Season 3 ⤵

Episode 8: Closing the Racial Wealth Gap Starts With the Truth

By Claire Suddath

My family owned slaves. I wanted to know more about that.

Episode 7: How to Repay a Community For Discrimination, Lessons from the U.K.

By Olivia Konotey-Ahulu

Episode 7 of The Pay Check podcast looks at why Britain’s Windrush Compensation Scheme became a cautionary tale

Episode 6: Who Gets How Much

By Susan Berfield

A small city agreed almost unanimously that reparations were called for. Then the arguments began in earnest.

Episode 5: The Complicated Relationship Between Black Wealth and Education

By Kelsey Butler

Episode 5 of The Pay Check takes a hard look at affirmative action and its promises and failures.

Episode 4: Four Numbers That Explain Racial Disparities in Homeownership

By Brentin Mock

Episode 4 of The Pay Check Podcast takes on the persistent inequality in one of the main sources of intergenerational wealth: homeownership.

Episode 3: How Black Farmers Fought the Wealth Gap

By Elizabeth Rembert and Shelly Banjo

Black farmers received $20.8 million from Trump's Covid relief packages. Now, the American Rescue Plan dedicates $5 billion to farmers of color. The inequity is part of a long legacy of discrimination.

Episode 2: Four Numbers That Show the Cost of Slavery on Black Wealth Today

By Catarina Saraiva

Episode 2 of The Pay Check podcast does the math on moments in U.S. history that led to the racial wealth gap.

Episode 1: My Family’s Long-Gone Texas Land Shows How Black Wealth Is Won and Lost

By Jacqueline Simmons

When I searched my ancestral history, I found clues to a legacy of land redistribution.

Coming Soon: The Pay Check Season 3

By Rebecca Greenfield

An in depth look at the racial wealth gap in the U.S.

Season 2 ⤵

Episode 6: When the U.S. Government Paid For Childcare

By Francesca Levy

In the last episode of The Pay Check, we explore the lasting legacy of a radical World War II-era experiment.

Episode 5: Reversing the One-Child Policy Isn’t As Easy As Just Ending It

By Jillian Goodman

More than 30 years of restricting births have left China with a demographic crisis.

Episode 4: Dads Should Take Paternity Leave. Here’s Why

By Jillian Goodman

Until men are as involved in childcare as women, moms will continue to take a pay hit.

Episode 3: Elizabeth Warren’s Childcare Policy Could Spark $700 Billion of Growth

By Janet Paskin

Episode three of The Pay Check examines how the cost of childcare holds back women’s earning power. Is there a better way?

Episode 2: Was Your Boss Weird About Your Pregnancy? You’re Not the Only One

By Claire Suddath

On this week’s episode of The Pay Check, a look at pregnancy discrimination and why companies struggle to treat expectant moms fairly

Episode 1: Having Kids Is Terrible for Women’s Earning Power

By Janet Paskin

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 ⤵

Episode 1: A Big, Expensive, Global Mystery

By Jordyn Holman

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

Episode 2: The Surprising Origins of the Gender Pay Gap

By Rebecca Greenfield and Claire Suddath

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.

Episode 3: Why Some People Don’t Believe in the Pay Gap

By Francesca Levy, Rebecca Greenfield, Jordyn Holman and Max Abelson

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.

Episode 4: Can Companies Be Shamed Into Closing the Pay Gap?

By Rebecca Greenfield, Suzi Ring and Claire Suddath

The U.K.’s big, nationwide experiment for pay equality just started. It’s already creating a big mess.

Episode 5: The Company Where Everybody Knows What You Make

By Rebecca Greenfield

After years of pay secrecy, Fog Creek has revealed the salaries of all its employees.

Episode 6: These Women Want to Solve the Pay Gap. Are They Discriminating?

By Rebecca Greenfield and Jordyn Holman

Ladies Get Paid just wanted to help women get more money. Then it got sued.

Bonus Episode: ‘Have You Ever Been Sexually Harassed?’

By Rebecca Greenfield

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

Bonus Episode: 'Why Aren't There More Women in Poker?'

By Rebecca Greenfield

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.

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