00:00She's jealous. She got all this opportunity over here.
00:04Today we're going to be playing Wage Gap Jenga.
00:07The worst party game ever.
00:09We are here working with these blocks, which are representing women and how they stack up in our culture.
00:16And this is actually, I believe, the gender and race wage gap.
00:20It's not really surprising though, because honestly, a Latino woman like me only gets paid like 54 cents for every
00:26white man's salary.
00:27I have 100% of the blocks, which feels good, but I don't feel good that it feels good, because
00:33I see objectively fewer blocks over here.
00:36It's already unfair, I feel like.
00:38Sabotage. Straight up sabotage.
00:40It's a huge risk to make a move for you. It's pretty low risk for me to make a move.
00:45We've been getting some facts here. I'm ready to read one.
00:47I make 87 cents to a white man's dollar.
00:51As a black woman, I just found out that I make 63 cents to the dollar.
00:56This is easy. I don't know what you're complaining about.
01:00Straight out of college, women make about $3 less per hour than men.
01:05Hmm.
01:06Because that makes sense.
01:07Gay and bisexual men are paid 10 to 32% less than similarly qualified heterosexual men.
01:13I usually am the only openly gay person of color in any place that I work at.
01:16I apparently make 77 cents to a white man's dollar.
01:22And you have children as well, right?
01:24I have two kids. There is a motherhood penalty for that.
01:27A motherhood penalty?
01:29Yeah, and in some states and in some instances, women can be penalized up to 15%.
01:35Just because you might have children, that shouldn't be a reason that you make less.
01:40I just feel like single moms get totally made invisible and that's part of the reason why like you would
01:46get paid less is because you're not viewed as like as valuable a contributor in some way.
01:51This is a really depressing game to play as a white guy. This is mad depressing.
01:55I got you, I got you. Right here in the middle.
01:59I got you, girl. I got you.
02:02The average woman can expect to lose out on nearly $500,000 in earnings over the course of her career
02:08because you're a woman, because you're a mother, because I'm a person of color.
02:13I think statistically, advantage is a difficult thing to explain and this is fair because you have played insane.
02:20Like you're insane at Jenga. Advantages of the stable support system, I think is the massive difference.
02:27Yeah, no, I'm like not moving. Oh, it didn't fall though, right? Does that count?
02:31That's not like cheating.
02:32Is it?
02:34Public policy could help close the gender wage path, but Congress has obstructed progress. Why Congress? Why?
02:43We already have like three laws that says you can't pay someone less because of their gender or race.
02:50However, the system we have set up makes it almost impossible to prove that.
02:54I think a lot of people are just like afraid, you know, they just like are happy to have jobs.
02:58They're like happy to have their job and don't want to lose it.
03:00Everybody should be speaking up about how much they're making. Talk to your friends, talk to your colleagues, especially, especially
03:06your bosses too.
03:08Alright, if it's gonna end, let it end with this.
03:13That's insane!
03:17Now we're equal.
03:19Should we karate chop it?
03:21I say let's break this down. Let's build our own. Let's knock it over. Let's build our own thing.
03:28When it clearly turned out better with both of us building it, not just me being a weird block miser.
03:34You can do anything that you want to do and do not let anybody stop you.
03:38You're all you need to be. You have everything that you need within you.
03:43Alright guys, we'll see you guys next time. Bye!
03:46See you guys next time.
