Episode Description
Don't work but don't get married and don't count on a living pension. This is an audio read of The gender pension gap of 1539, or how women got screwed by the Dissolution of Monasteries.
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On this episode:
- Isabelle Roughol - Host
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Jump to:
- (00:00) - The Gender Pension Gap of 1539
- (01:17) - The gender pension gap, or how women got screwed by the dissolution of monasteries.
- (02:37) - Dissolution 101
- (04:01) - The (near) impossibility of marriage or work
- (06:00) - Pay on your way in, get paid on your way out
- (08:20) - Sidebar: What happened to "Jillian Heron the idiot"?
- (09:57) - The making of a pension gap
- (11:25) - Sidebar: How do we know all this?
- (13:56) - Sidebar: Could you live on £2.67 a year?
- (15:00) - "Many a young nun proved an old beggar"
- (18:06) - Outro
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