Welcome to Season 1, episode 4 of Breaking with Tradition, Catalyst’s podcast that explores trends and ideas that will impact the future of the global workplace. This episode is called Women Money Power.
We know that women across the globe make less money than men. The gap may vary among countries, but it is a persistent pattern caused by a variety of systemic factors including job segregation, differences in education, and a lack of pay transparency, discrimination, and bias.
Some would say, however, that the gender pay gap is because “women aren’t ambitious.” And financial journalist and author Josie Cox has a lot of evidence to the contrary.
Join host Lucy Kallin as she sits down with Josie to discuss her latest book Women Money Power: The Rise and Fall of Economic Equality. Together, they discuss the century-old workplace design that holds back working mothers, recent legislative efforts to make salaries more transparent, as well as the trailblazing women who have contributed to the seismic progress in women’s economic empowerment we have today.
How can companies and employees work collectively to close the gap and create workplaces that better support people of all genders, including men? Listen to find out!
Hosts and guest
Lucy Kallin, Executive Director, EMEA, Catalyst
LinkedIn | Bio
Josie Cox is a journalist, author, broadcaster and public speaker. She’s worked on staff for Reuters, The Independent and The Wall Street Journal. As a freelancer, she’s covered the intersection of gender and the economy for The Washington Post, The Spectator, Guardian, Business Insider, MSNBC, Forbes and other publications.
Josie has appeared on CNN, ABC, PBS, CNBC, public radio and a host of other networks. She regularly contributes to the BBC, both as a writer and broadcaster and is a founding editor of The Persistent.
Website | LinkedIn
In this episode
- 1:04 | Are women less ambitious than men? Josie and Lucy discuss the myth of the "unambitious mother."
- 6:22 | Breaking away from false perceptions. What can individuals and companies do to combat bias?
- 12:54 | Trailblazers in Women Money Power Josie talks about some of the women who changed history under the radar.
- 20:08 | Is gender equity a zero-sum game for men? We still tend to frame gender as a woman’s issue.
- 24:22 | Pay transparency regulation. Is it effective? What are some of the bright spots?
- 29:12 | The main takeaway from Women Money Power. Lucy asks Josie what she hopes readers get from her book.
Favorite moments
- 4:40 | Josie: And I think what we have to do, and it’s our duty as a society, is to recognize that when it looks like a woman might not be as ambitious as a man, we have to ask ourselves: what are the parameters, the constructs, the infrastructure that are preventing her from being able to make the choices that make her look ambitious in the way that we understand ambition?...
