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Weekly Address: Joe and Jill Biden on 'A Weekly Conversation' with Megan and Margaret - March 27, 2021

  • Megan Rapinoe
    Person
  • Joe Biden
    Person
  • Margaret Purce
    Person
  • Jill Biden
    Person

Jill Biden

Neutral
00:00:00-00:00:10 (10 sec)
"My first teaching job, I was hired and I made $7,500, and a man was hired the same time and they offered him $10,000." 1

Megan Rapinoe

Very Positive
00:00:10-00:00:21 (11 sec)
"I've helped win four world cup championships and four Olympic gold medals for the United States. Despite those wins, I'm still paid less then men who do the same job that I do." 2

Margaret Purce

Leans Positive
00:00:21-00:00:37 (16 sec)
"The strength of unequal pay rests on the notion of unequal value. It is an issue of equity. Invest in women, then let's talk again when you see the return." 3

Megan Rapinoe

Neutral
00:00:37-00:00:37 (1 sec)
"Clap for you [Laughs]." 4

Margaret Purce

Slightly Positive
00:00:37-00:00:51 (14 sec)
"My college experience was good, but I do think that those years were really when I became more aware of discrepancies within the sport." 5

Megan Rapinoe

Very Positive
00:00:51-00:01:04 (12 sec)
"I think we see it more in our professional lives than we do in colleges un -- unfortunately. Obviously we have a, a very public [Laughs] fight going on, going on there, but yeah, I feel like we felt it almost more after college." 6

Joe Biden

Leans Positive
00:01:04-00:01:05 (2 sec)
"It's even tougher for women of color." 7

Margaret Purce

Slightly Positive
00:01:05-00:01:06 (1 sec)
"Yeah [Laughs]." 8

Megan Rapinoe

Leans Negative
00:01:06-00:01:13 (7 sec)
"And when we talk about equal pay, we always talk about the 80 cents on the dollar, or 85 cents and that's real- that's not, that's not the number." 9

Joe Biden

Neutral
00:01:13-00:01:15 (2 sec)
"It's about 52 cents for a --" 10

Megan Rapinoe

Slightly Positive
00:01:15-00:01:15 ( sec)
"Yeah." 11

Joe Biden

Very Positive
00:01:15-00:01:30 (16 sec)
"-- Hispanic woman. One of the things I'm proudest of, we're gonna reduce child poverty by 40%. But it's about focusing on caregivers too. So many women are out of the workforce because they had to choose between taking care of their elderly mom and their son or daughter that's home or go to work." 12

Megan Rapinoe

Very Positive
00:01:30-00:01:40 (10 sec)
"So often the work is left to the people that it's affecting most. We're doing the best that we can with what we have but to have it obviously come from the very top is the most important." 13

Joe Biden

Positive
00:01:40-00:01:43 (3 sec)
"I think we're making enormous progress." 14

Megan Rapinoe

Somewhat Positive
00:01:43-00:01:49 (6 sec)
"I know, I think there was a huge seismic shift last year. Inequities in our society were sort of laid very bare." 15

Jill Biden

Very Positive
00:01:49-00:01:51 (2 sec)
"Yeah, yeah, for sure." 16

Megan Rapinoe

Positive
00:01:51-00:01:55 (4 sec)
"And I think a lot of white people especially dropped the innocence part of it." 17

Margaret Purce

Neutral
00:01:55-00:01:56 (1 sec)
"Mm-hmm." 18

Megan Rapinoe

Neutral
00:01:56-00:02:14 (19 sec)
"And realize that, you know, we have to do more. Now we need to couple it with the government approach and, you know, with bills and legislation and, and all of that to go along with the change that we're seeing in society. " 19