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

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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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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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