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Weekly Address: Joe and Jill Biden on 'A Weekly Conversation' with Megan and Margaret - March 27, 2021
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Megan Rapinoe Person
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Joe Biden Person
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Margaret Purce Person
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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."
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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."
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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."
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Megan Rapinoe
Neutral
00:00:37-00:00:37 (1 sec)
"Clap for you [Laughs]."
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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."
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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."
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Joe Biden
Leans Positive
00:01:04-00:01:05 (2 sec)
"It's even tougher for women of color."
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Margaret Purce
Slightly Positive
00:01:05-00:01:06 (1 sec)
"Yeah [Laughs]."
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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."
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Joe Biden
Neutral
00:01:13-00:01:15 (2 sec)
"It's about 52 cents for a --"
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Megan Rapinoe
Slightly Positive
00:01:15-00:01:15 ( sec)
"Yeah."
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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."
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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."
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Joe Biden
Positive
00:01:40-00:01:43 (3 sec)
"I think we're making enormous progress."
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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."
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Jill Biden
Very Positive
00:01:49-00:01:51 (2 sec)
"Yeah, yeah, for sure."
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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."
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Margaret Purce
Neutral
00:01:55-00:01:56 (1 sec)
"Mm-hmm."
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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. "
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