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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. ★ Support this podcast ★On this episode: Isabelle Roughol - HostWhat do you think?Read & comment at broadhistory.comEmail me: [email protected] to: (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🇬🇧 Shop in the UK bookshop 🇺🇸 Shop in the US bookstore(Affiliate bookshop.org links support Broad History and indie bookstores.)Click here to view the episode transcript.
