The Underpaid State of Women

The Brian Lehrer Show | Aug 1, 2017

For August, Glamour and L'Oreal Paris teamed up to conduct a Harris Poll of 2,000 American women to find out the state of women today. Cindi Leive, Glamour Editor-in-Chief, and John Gerzema, the CEO of Harris Poll, social strategist, and author of The Athena Doctrine: How Women (and the Men Who Think Like Them) Will Rule the Future (Jossey-Bass, 2013), discuss the surprising results of the poll, like the finding that 70% of women say their top priority in life is to become financially secure, but 56% believe they are underpaid. In terms of the poll, Gerzema explains that this is a story about optimism and obstacle. 

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