Sarah Silverman Wants to Crowdfund the Wage Gap Away

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Tricia Gilbride
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Sarah Silverman Wants to Crowdfund the Wage Gap Away
Credit: Sarah Silverman

The average working woman still only makes 78 cents to a man's dollar, and Sarah Silverman wants to change that.

In the video, above, Silverman considers a sex change operation to earn the money a man gets doing the same job as a woman. The comedian promotes the Equal Payback Project, which aims to raise the total amount of money that 69 million women in the workforce lose over the course of their careers -- a modest $30 trillion.

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