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Statistics show that female workers still bring home less bacon than men. Tune in to this podcast from HowStuffWorks.com to hear Molly and Cristen debate possible causes of this gender wage gap and ways to address it. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://news.iheart.com/podcast-advertisers

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