Are You Being Underpaid? Why Women Need to Start Talking About Their Salaries

What’s the one thing every woman should do this week to start increasing her earning potential?
Women already earn less, save less, and retire with less. We're paid less for the same work. We take time out for caring responsibilities that go unvalued and unpaid. We're told we're not technical enough, not strategic enough, too risk averse. And now, AI is being trained on data that reflects all of that.
In this episode of AI Ready Women, Georgie and Lou sit down with Angela Meyer, an award winning strategist, speaker, bestselling author, and co founder of High Money and Project Gender. Angela has spent years championing women's economic equality, and she's written a brilliant paper called Counted In: What AI Could Be Fixing About Women's Financial Lives and Why It Isn't.
This conversation is about what happens when AI learns from a financial system that was built 250 years ago by men, for men. It's about why women are being given more conservative financial advice by AI, even when they ask the same questions as men. It's about the invisible work that women do every single day that has never been counted, never been valued, and is now being completely left out of the algorithms shaping our financial futures.
Angela shares why she believes this is one of the most pivotal moments we've had to redesign the system. Why talking about money openly is one of the most powerful things women can do. And why AI literacy isn't just a nice to have anymore. It's a wealth building tool.
She also unpacks the research from MIT and Stanford that found women using AI for financial advice ended up with $60,000 less wealth by age 60, largely because the AI assumed they were more risk averse. Not because they were. But because of the way they asked questions.
This episode will make you think differently about the stories you've been told about money, the beliefs you've inherited, and the systems you're trying to navigate.
In this episode:
How beliefs about money are shaped by the age of seven, and why that matters
The invisible work women do that has never been valued or counted in our economic system
What happens when AI is trained on data that reflects systemic gender bias
The MIT and Stanford study that found women ended up with $60,000 less wealth by age 60 when using AI for financial advice
Why AI assumes women are more risk averse, and how that assumption is costing women money
Why women are not risk averse, we just understand calculated risk differently
How the gender pay gap, the pink tax, and career interruptions compound over a lifetime
Why so many capable women feel shame about money, even when they're managing million dollar budgets at work
The why behind the buy exercise, and how it helps you get curious about your spending
Why talking about money openly with other women is one of the most powerful things you can do
How AI literacy can become a wealth building tool for women
Why women need to be creators of AI, not just consumers of it
The one thing every woman should do this week to start increasing her earning potential
One of the biggest takeaways from this conversation?
The best thing we can do is talk about money.
Because if we don't talk about how much we're getting paid with each other and with the men in our companies, chances are they're getting a lot more than us.
And if we don't start shaping the AI systems being built right now, we'll be locked into the same biased systems for decades to come. Only faster.
This is your reminder that you're not behind. You're not bad with money. The system was just never designed for you.
And now is the moment to change that.
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📄 Counted In: What AI Could Be Fixing About Women's Financial Lives and Why It Isn't