Pink Tax, Wage Gap, Gender Discrimination: Stories of Being a Woman in America | The Daily Show

[Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] the pandemic recession has hit many people hard but it's hit one group especially hard desi leidek has more the coven 19 pandemic has ravaged the u.s economy with millions out of work and much like underwire and microblading it's disproportionately hurting women economist olga sherkhoff told me why since february 2020 about two and a half million women left the workforce two and a half million that's right eighty percent wasn't that job losses wow even when it comes to unemployment women are overachieving for decades women have been chipping away at the glass ceiling joining the labor force in greater numbers with each year until the pandemic which has reduced the percentage of working women to 1988 levels the question is why is this happening well my interview with dr darushana muthalingam provided one compelling reason why the pandemic is one of the reasons that i just needed to step back from my research we lost child care for several months um sorry i couldn't quite hear there was a bit of a like uh something in the background um that's my three-year-old son with uh a lego train car sorry hold on no it's my i think it's my background is that the trash compactor there better not be any ninjagos in there there were ninjagos in there thanks to school closures and child care disruptions mothers are stepping back from the workforce in large numbers and not because they want to i think we really need to move away from this idea of personal choice if you have to choose between bringing home a paycheck to feed your family and you know avoiding a deadly disease that's not a choice no it's it's not and it doesn't matter if you're young old black white or that slick [ __ ] in the next apartment that keeps eyeing my husband this affects you my research has been focused on infectious disease and incarcerated populations and so i was looking at sort of how can we improve testing and support for these individuals who are very vulnerable to getting infected so you were researching covid and you had to take a step back yeah i mean it was a very difficult decision god think of all that you could have accomplished in this past year if you had full-time coveted safe child care like i know for me i just know i would have been able to finish my one-woman show from home hamilton my whole life is in this room where it happens this room where it happens this room where it happens yeah art is important so millions of women have just been a year stuck at home we're workshopping our dream projects with our kids instead of with audiences or producers and much like a stoned elon musk tweet this could affect the whole economy women leaving the workforce means that these women are now losing the skills that they had and becoming less productive and so that could affect actually um the entire economy and economic growth for years to come even women who are still working are experiencing sort of hidden burdens that they're doing this dual role roll no no you can't have a snack you just ate you can't have a snack they have to work and at the same time take care of their children and so there are also mental health repercussions something's got to give hey babe can he have a snack no he can't no he can't have a snack so how do we fix this before moms across america just lose it asking for a friend no you can't yeah you know what get have a snack have a snack have all the snacks dr shirchkov says it's going to take a lot of work covert 19 highlighted an exacerbated long-standing structural gender and racial and ethnic gaps that need to be addressed and not to mention women i think have learned yes oh my goodness you want me to google we're looking up a pokemon oh which is my other new phd level area of expertise um so where was i yes if we would like to see things get better we need institutions policymakers to pay attention to child care and expand access to child care shoot i had a question off of that actually sorry maybe my producer sarah the question off of the women i definitely have it written down in here i remember when we came up with that question yeah sorry but yeah you got your hands full it's okay oh boy okay i actually come prepared mommy's working well one thing is certain the pandemic has shown us that the system is broken and women need institutional support something has to be done probably by someone who doesn't have kids at home [Music] march madness is the most fun way to gamble away your stimi this year's tournament has already seen its fair share of upsets like oral roberts making it to the sweet 16 and i'm guessing from its name also third base but the biggest shock of the tournament so far didn't happen on the court it happened in the weight room the ncaa is apologizing after being criticized for the stark difference in the fitness facilities provided to the men and the women competing in the college basketball tournaments oregon's sedona prince gave us a glimpse of the weight room differences in a social media video last thursday so for the ncaa march madness the biggest tournament in college basketball for women this is our weight room let me show you all the men's weight room as you can see the men were provided with a lot more equipment than the women it did not take long for the ncaa to make changes though by saturday the ncaa sharing the new set up for the women prince thanking everyone who helped guess what guys we got a weight room yeah damn that's ice cold because that's not a weight room that's just the rack of weights that you buy in the beginning of quarantine and then never use and honestly this is surprising because usually the ncaa treats male and female athletes equally i mean they definitely pay them both the same amount but to be fair at least the ncaa made it right after the uproar they gave the women the same amenities that the men's weight room has more machines more weights and they even added the guy who always makes way too much noise when he's lifting this is how you know that i'm strong now it was upsetting enough when people saw the difference in men's and women's weight rooms but it turns out that sexism in the ncaa is a lot like face tune once you're aware of it you start noticing it everywhere but it's not just the weight room the covid tests different for the men's tournament the more accurate pcr tests at the women's antigen test another complaint a quick look at the official march madness twitter account the bio reads the official ncaa march madness destination for all things division one ncaa men's basketball no mention of the women's tournament the men have been provided with a brand new ncaa court with march madness the huge logo in the middle where on the women's court you're going to still see two lines for the men's line and the women's line for three-point shots there's a volleyball court on one of the courts it doesn't even look like an ncaa game there are differences in food options for the men's and women's teams as well as the difference in gift bags given to players the men were given a large number of custom items designed for march madness while the women's had a few generic items including a 150 piece puzzle and a towel that said ncaa women's basketball plus an umbrella a puzzle yo that is a trash gift and what's even worse is when you complete it it shows a picture of the men's team enjoying a free steak dinner seriously how are you going to give the players a puzzle that is not swag people when you look at all of this together the differences are so stark it almost seems less like sexism and more like the ncaa didn't even know that the women were coming you know it's so bad it's almost like the women were knocking on the door and the ncaa was just scrambling oh [ __ ] the ladies are here do we have anything to give them uh i ordered a burger for lunch okay it'll work just chop it up and save sliders what else do we have swag uh i think there's an umbrella in the closet yeah it'll work it'll work get real work so clearly casual sexism has pervaded almost every aspect of the player experience at this tournament but it's not just a problem for the players it's also affecting the coaches there was also an article in the athletic this morning about some of the female coaches uh who are working in the tournament and how the ncaa is basically penalizing them in their teams if they have say a baby who depends on them for food that baby counts inside the bubble against the total that they can bring in so that coach's team if they want to feed their child has to have one last athletic trainer one less other coach one last person in the traveling party ridiculous okay now that that is positively ridiculous no one should be punished for having children the children are already punishment enough not to mention asking a coach to choose between her baby and the trainer for the team i mean that's a really great way to get the rest of the team to hate that baby i mean you could be getting deep tissue massages right now if it wasn't for little derrick now i don't know why this seems so hard but there's an obvious solution here all you should do is have the baby be the assistant coach after all a crying baby can be very motivational what do you want a blanket a bottle do you want me to win the tournament is that it okay i'll win the tournament just please take a nap take a nap just take a nap the fact is the way that the women have been treated during this tournament has been disgraceful i mean the only silver lining is that it's made the ncaa's favoritism towards male athletes as blatant and impossible to ignore as that one guy in the gym does anyone want to date me now [Music] [Applause] the 80 cent wage gap is the average of all the money earned by men versus all the money earned by women if you adjust for race and ethnicity it can get wider on the other hand if you adjust for employees being paid hourly it can get narrower so the exact number is really hard to pin down it's like splitting a check after a bachelor at dinner look i assume those vodka bottles were complimentary so i shouldn't have to pay for them elizabeth but experts agree the wage gap is real and if we want to fix it we need to understand it so let's start with the good news it's actually illegal to pay women less money for the same work in spite of that women still need to fight for equal pay earlier this year the u.s women's soccer team filed a lawsuit claiming that they're paid less than the mail team even though as they claim in the suit the women's team has played more world cup games generated more profit and had a larger audience also compared to the women's team and i cannot stress this enough the us mail team sucks you guys it really sucks in 2018 they didn't even qualify meanwhile the women are out there meddling every time and winning the whole damn world cup look if they're gonna bring glory to our nation they shouldn't have to pawn the trophy to get paid so for the women's national soccer team equal pay is their goal no that that's not right you know what i'm just going to let their all-time leading scorer say it abby equal pay is our goal much better so if that's the struggle for world-class athletes you know the wage gap is even more challenging for everyday women let's talk about why the major component is what economists call lifestyle choices like starting a family which is why the wage gap is higher for women who have kids and lower for women who never get married this is what's called the motherhood penalty which could also be the name of a j-lo movie where a judge sentences her to take care of someone else's kids all while keeping her food truck afloat and taking care of her blind mother i totally see that by the way but in reality the motherhood penalty is a long-term financial hit a woman takes after leaving a job or going part-time to raise her children and those women earn an average of 39 percent less than men as if i didn't deal with enough [ __ ] when i was pregnant now a cold-hearted economist might say what is the free market care why should you get paid for taking time off well sir ow what is the free market care we are literally birthing the economy's future customers who's going to buy stocks and cars and jeans if there are no people left trees trees wouldn't be caught dead in denim and remember having children is a lifestyle choice that men also make the only differences are one a baby doesn't squeeze its way out of their dick and two a man's income statistically increases after he has a baby which i guess should be called the fatherhood bonus which would also be the sequel to that j-lo movie starring gerard butler which i would also see but enjoy less fortunately there's some ways to offset the motherhood penalty and close the wage gap flexible work hours affordable child care and a national policy of parental leave because america's the only industrialized country with no policy of paid family leave that's right we put a man on the moon but we can't spare anything to put a mother in a nursery i'm kidding they faked the moon landing have you not been paying attention to this wet ass [ __ ] controversy oh you mean like why kylie jenner was in the video no ain't nobody talking about that goofy ass girl you silly man no i'm not talking about the song i'm talking about why people are talking about the song cardi b and making the stallion have given us a sex positive song of the summer celebrating women owning their sexuality something men have been doing since adam ate that apple in the garden of eden and got his first boner uh don't say i don't remember that part in the bible the point is male musicians talk about sex all the time talking about their hard dicks and skeeting everywhere but when women do it people are like this is vulgar inappropriate what about the children that look up to them who cares about them damn children cardi b and megan the stallion are not your nannies i know it's confusing you see two women of color and a really nice house and you assume aiden and mackenzie are just off screen with their mandarin tutor but it's a huge double standard trevor okay dulce but to play devil's advocate you have to admit it's a really graphic song trevor only in a repressed patriarchal society when people consider a woman's pleasure graphic men don't have to consent for their pleasure drake and bruno mars can sing about eating [ __ ] and getting hard but they still get invited thanksgiving dinner but if cardi b does it she's a [ __ ] who's taking down society well you know there is another thing i mean there's something about rap that as soon as some white people hear it it sounds graphic you know just because it's rap like i could be like it's really cool to stay in school and then some white people would be like whoa whoa whoa calm down sir you know so there's always a chance that the problem wasn't the message as much as the fact that it's hip-hop okay first of all don't ever do that again listen that was offensive for a whole different reason no no i was just trying to show like like when you say something with the flow how it goes whatever it was stop okay the point is we don't live in a society that's comfortable with women claiming their sexuality it doesn't matter if it's rap or country [Music] [Applause] being a woman can cost you apparently an average of fourteen hundred dollars a year thanks to gender price discrimination if you're a woman just about everything cost you more than similar products marketed for men it's called the pink tax i needed to investigate by testing some products but i wasn't gonna fall victim to price discrimination by actually paying for them two razors one blue one pink otherwise identical does the pink one give a silky or shave only one way to find out what i'm a full-time working mom what do you expect they're exactly the same could this be an isolated case i continued my investigation we need a patriarchy cleanup in aisle 13. two painkillers one marketed for lady cramps question is which is more effective [Music] just as i thought same active ingredient this is [ __ ] why do products cost more for women than men well classic marketing strategies what they call shrink it and pink it oh yeah i had that surgery that's not what we're talking about in this case what we're saying is the company will take the basic version they made for everyone and then market that towards women they'll make it smaller they'll make it pink yeah same same thing basic economics 101 it goes right to their bottom line yeah i mean that's the whole point of the surgery went to my bottom line but there's one lawmaker congresswoman jackie spear who's been fighting gender discrimination for over 20 years get rid of the gender tax women on the average pay five dollars more for a haircut than does a man they should be paying you to get those haircuts but that's not the point the pink tax is a insidious institution in america and mind you women are still making 80 cents for every dollar earned by a man to do the same job and if you're a woman of color you're making even less money i ran the numbers and overcharged plus underpaid equals the square root of what the so unfair it's like when someone has blue eyes everyone falls in love with them but you get pink eye once and suddenly you're kicked out of your neighbor's hot tub it's three o'clock in the morning what are they gonna use it for women aren't just getting discriminated against with goods but with services as well haircuts tailoring dry cleaning research has shown women pay more than men 42 percent of the time in fact a recent study shows it starts from the time you were born until the day you die as displayed and some of these products we have with us today and a game we call 34 to 44. oh great so while your little girl is learning how to walk she'll also learn how to navigate the system that's exploiting her sorry these are two children snorkels 884 1622 for the pink so women literally have to pay more to breathe sorry 28 women's diapers for 15.98 but the men get 32 diapers for the same amount of money this is why i stopped pooping [Music] and just like me this system is full of [ __ ] how can women afford to live in this world if the man's version is cheaper then just buy that one yeah sure if you think about it it's just one extra step and a series of extra steps that women take every day to thrive in a man's world like how we get up a little extra early every morning to put on an outfit that looks professional yet accessible but not too accessible because we don't want to be taken advantage of or how we walk an extra five blocks to work so that we can avoid the construction zone because men like to tell us to smile more and when we get to work we want to make our voices heard but in a way that's helpful and strong without being overbearing or shrill you know we do all of this without even an ounce of resentment because resentment causes wrinkles and society does not value aging women is there a men's wrinkle cream that you can recommend yes there are several i'm sure it costs less maybe a little there's got to be a better solution i'm introducing the pink tax repeal act we have got to get the federal government to protect women from this gross discrimination that's right spear is ready to give the pink tax some blue balls but why stop there i think there has to be an outrage women should say why is this more this is discrimination i'm going to call corporate got it be outraged make our voices heard take it into our own hands until the repeal the pink tax act gets passed i'm gonna make up for all the [ __ ] we've already paid for with the help of my little pink friend perfect giving women their money back one item at a time we'll call it desi's dick tax strong enough for a man but priced just for her [Applause] black women we gave you oprah beyonce and all your favorite reaction memes i've heard people say they like their women like they like their coffee strong black and hot enough to give you second degree burns careful what you wish for darius but the thing is not all black women are strong and even the ones that are strong aren't just that we like doors open for us too especially with someone with biceps like michael b jordan abs like michael b jordan hair like michael b jordan but unfortunately the strong black woman stereotype is ingrained in american culture it has a long history about as old as morgan freeman and betty white combined now you may be wondering what is a strong black woman it's the idea that black women are emotionally resilient naturally selfless too proud to ask for help and can succeed with no resources so basically every character played by viola davis the irony is the strong black woman stereotype was started by black women to combat all the negative ones see in the aftermath of slavery there were really only two stereotypes of black women you were either some sex temptress jezebel or a mammy who was just there to smother people in hebrews in response black suffragette mary turch tyrell coined the strong black woman motto listing as we climb and i get what she was going for but lift as we climb even bodybuilders don't do both at the same time you can't expect a black woman to do more than schwarzenegger in his prime but over time society shrank a black woman down to just her strength and the popular conception now is that black women can bear and overcome any birth we see it all over our culture in movies like the color purple oh my life i had to fight and how can we forget ghost where whoopi goldberg literally has to let a white man use her body to rub foreheads with his fiancee even when black women only have one line it's strong as hell move or you will be moved damn at least let her say hello but tulsa what's wrong with being perceived as strong isn't it a good thing no not if black women destroy their mental and physical health trying to live up to it and not if people think black women are so strong they make them do all the work on their own look at stacey abrams she helped democrats win georgia and before you knew it she was being asked to fix vaccine distribution the new york subway and kim and kanye's marriage the stereotype even reaches the doctor's office black women are less likely to be properly diagnosed they have a much higher maternal mortality rate and they're less likely to be believed about their symptoms and pain so a black woman basically has to be a doctor to know everything that's going on with her body and then convince another doctor that that's what's happening i was in a car accident i have contusions lacerations and internal bleeding get me a morphine drip and prep surgery step we'll get you a couple of band-aids and you'll be fine what so the next time you see a black woman struggling at work or trying to lift a box help her don't just stand there like you're about to see wonder woman in action in fact if you're in the new york area [Music] i'm moving this week and i could use some help moving my couch because i'll be damned if i'm gonna pull my back lifting my own couch [Music] [Applause] for many women every time they leave the house it's a risk and this is not something that men experience like when the pandemic hit men were like so just going outside is dangerous now and women are like yeah added to the list and that risk of violence is why women are forced to constantly check up on each other to make sure that everyone gets home okay it's become a normal part of women's routines get home brush your teeth put on some pjs and then text your friends a picture of you holding today's newspaper to prove that you're still alive and that sucks for women on multiple levels because sometimes a woman forgets to send the text and accidentally falls asleep and by the time she wakes up the sniffer dogs looking for her and find jessica is trending on twitter and the truth is even if women know they will get home safely most times they never know which is the time that they won't because for women just being out in public means facing a wide array of potential threats from men people don't just wake up one day and murder somebody they are taught from an early age that there is a power difference between men and women and that it is okay to use certain language certain behavior and they progress from catcalling and groping 96 of women 40 and younger reported being harassed on the street in the past year are you dressed i'm dressed for work these are my professional clothes i've been followed home i've been stopped i have bad guys tried to sexually harass me i was catcalled probably for the very first time um probably 11 or 12. and you have 30 seconds that young to work out if i say no to this person are they going to be okay with that or are they going to start yelling at me yeah that's a terrifying thing to have to deal with women never know what a cat call might lead to since that person already has the audacity to start shouting at them on the streets i mean it's like the guy at the buffet who starts grabbing rice with his bare hands yo that person is clearly capable of anything this is why so many women wear headphones when they're walking down the street you think they're all listening to your podcast no half of them are just pretending to listen to something so when a man cat calls them they can act like they didn't hear it and the other half would never listen to your podcast anyway oh you talk about sports with a mix of pop culture revolutionary so women basically have to tiptoe around the outside world like it's the quiet place which is why they leave the house onto the teeth in case just in case they get noticed by the monster too many of us have clutched our keys and our fists in case we need to defend ourselves i now have a panic alarm which is part of my life now on my keys on my keychain for my car i have a mini mace camila parker packs up bags for her business she started to give women a layer of safety that fits into a purse the self-defense bags have a taser an alarm and pepper spray every woman you know has taken a longer route has doubled back on herself has pretended to dawdle by a shop window i walk in the middle of the road and i did tell my daughters to do this that is a safe place god damn it's safer in the middle of the road yo how bad do men have to be for women to be like uh i'll take my chances with an 18 wheeler at least it won't tell me to smile and i never want to hear anyone talk [ __ ] about women's giant purses again like ever again look at all the [ __ ] that they have to bring with them just to stay safe they've got tasers they've got mini mace sprays on their keychains what do men have on our keychains huh bottle openers i mean that should tell you everything you need to know women don't know when they're going to be attacked and men don't know when they're going to be surprised with the tailgate you got to be careful bro this brewski's around like every corner but the solution here isn't to load up women with weapons and gadgets like a human swiss army knife in fact the solution doesn't really have anything to do with women at all the burden has been placed on us to stay safe rather than compelling men to change their behavior we are finding these comments on social media about why was so-and-so going out at night why was she on her own why was she dressed like that why was she why she had a drink you know seeking to blame the woman for the fact that she's been attacked the mainstream conversation about um this subject uses passive voice all over the place there's no active agent nobody's doing it to them they're just experiencing it that immediately frames the entire debate as if it's your problem as a woman we are the culprits here whether we like it or not this is about men and we have to deal with that fact and we can't even start to have that debate unless we start to reframe it with men at the center of it that's right the conversation needs to be reframed because this is not about what else women can do you can't solve violence against women without addressing the men committing it would be like trying to address gun violence without restricting access to guns i mean that would be so crazy like who would be that stupid to think that you could stop gun violence without trying to stop access to guns and i know right now a lot of guys are watching this going yo trevor i don't murder women first of all congratulations but second of all understand that there's more to it than that all right as men we often act in ways that we think are totally appropriate because we know that we would never do anything wrong but understand the woman doesn't know you she doesn't know that right so it's easier for you to just not do those things like you might think you're innocently complimenting a stranger's outfit in a parking lot but unless you're christian siriano she doesn't need to hear that from you we should also be teaching the next generation of men to respect women and be aware of their experiences and we should start them as early as possible like as soon as they're done nursing their eyes have to be here but aside from children we have a responsibility to teach each other like as men maybe we should start checking in with our friends like women do only in our case it'll be a little different hey man did you make it home safely without harassing any women all right great good to know love you i mean go packers look the point is as men we should be steering this conversation to where it belongs centered on us because this is our responsibility not to be creeps right so let's not make it the one thing that we don't take credit for you

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Length: 32min 33sec (1953 seconds)

Published: Thu Jun 03 2021