The wait is over - we now have access to the gender pay gaps of more than 5,000 Australian businesses, and some of the results are pretty grim. Angela Priestley and Tarla Lambert discuss their key takeaways from the data.

There’s another gender gap we talk about this week - it’s a gender exercise gap. More than half of women say they don’t exercise as much as they want to. Why is this the case?

We also look at why Sydney Mardi Gras will feel different this year, plus some wins for the week. Thank you for listening.

Stories discussed this week:

• Ruth Gottesman makes $1.5b donation to New York medical school
• Caroline Kennedy to participate in Shitbox Rally, raising money for cancer research
• 20 Australian businesses and their gender pay gaps, according to new data from WGEA
• Activate your career with us! Just ignore the 37.1% gender pay gap
• So you just found out men are earning significantly more than you. What now?
• ‘Anyone can be a victim of violence’: The horrific alleged murders of Jesse Baird and Luke Davies
• Mardi Gras board asks NSW Police not to participate in this weekend’s parade
• Name-dropping Taylor Swift in a political speech doesn’t undo Scott Morrison’s damage to women
• More than half of women don’t exercise as much as they would like, new research finds

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