The Daily Show's Desi Lydic | Maternal Wage Gap, Gender Equality, + our Southern Blonde's Guide to Surviving Family Politics
Desi Lydic on Atomic Moms Podcast
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The Daily Show correspondent and toddler wrangler DESI LYDIC chats about her recent globe-trotting adventures to Iceland, Namibia, and Spain in order to find out how America can do better with the Gender Gap. (The United States ranks flipping #49!). We talk about the time she flew across the country for her dream job interview that happened to coincide with a not yet revealed pregnancy. (Would you tell your potential boss if you were pregnant?) And since we're southern blondes, we share our hot tips for keeping things civil-ish when visiting our Fox News loving families back home. (We love you Moms.) We also give a Daniel Tiger shout, commiserate about not being our kid's favorite parent, and we can't wait for all y'all to watch her special The Daily Show Presents Desi Lydic: Abroad debuting Monday, May 13, at 11 pm ET/PT.
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“According to OECD data, the motherhood penalty amounts to about a 7% wage reduction per child. There is also some evidence of a fatherhood premium: a positive relationship between a man’s wage and the number of children he has. ”
LINKS
Women Are on Track to Earn the Same as Men -- in 202 Years - Bloomberg
The global gender gap will take more than 100 years to close — here are the countries with the highest and lowest gender gap around the world - Business Insider
Mapped: The best (and worst) countries for gender equality - The Telegraph
GUEST BIO
Desi Lydic joined The Daily Show as a Correspondent in September 2015 when Trevor Noah started his tenure as Host. She is a professionally trained improvisational and comedic actress, she had a starring role on MTV’s hit comedy series Awkward — where she befriended one of our Atomic Moms buddies and two time Atomic Moms guest Nikki DeLoach - remember her story about her baby boy Bennett’s open heart surgery? Back to Desi! Her other credits include FXX’s The League and Cameron Crowe’s We Bought a Zoo.
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