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The gender pension gap of 1539, or how women got screwed by the Dissolution of Monasteries (long read)

April 21 · 19 min · Season 1 · Episode 5 · 18.5 MB
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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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  • (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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