4. Normal Women...are underpaid

Whether you are on the Board or in the kitchen, a medieval peasant or modern day medic, a Victorian street-sweeper or eighteenth century hand-spinner - if you are a woman, there’s every chance you are underpaid. So why is that? Explanations vary across the centuries from women's lack of upper-body strength to the demands of motherhood and patriarchal oppression, but one thing is certain - the pay gap never closes.

Joining Philippa to discuss the history of women's work are:

Professor Jane Humphries, economic historian at the University of Oxford and London School of Economics anddata scientist Edwina Dunn, founder of the educational charity The Female Lead, which empowers and listens to women.

Normal Women: 900 Years of Making History is Philippa Gregory's radical retelling of our nation’s story – not of the rise and fall of kings and the occasional queen, but a history of the millions of women missing from the record: wives and workers, viragoes and angels, female husbands, priests and pirates.

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