--- title: The Daily Show: Kristen SChaal Talks Equal Pay and women description: Kristen Schaal explains it all in a depressingly funny report. canonical: https://time.com/3757898/daily-show-kristen-schaal-women-equal-pay/ author: Melissa Locker article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-03-25T16:44:11.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-04T08:05:58.517Z og:title: 'The Daily Show' Reminds Us That Flying Cars May Exist Before Women Get Equal Pay og:description: Kristen Schaal explains it all in a depressingly funny report. og:url: https://time.com/3757898/daily-show-kristen-schaal-women-equal-pay/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: 'The Daily Show' Reminds Us That Flying Cars May Exist Before Women Get Equal Pay twitter:description: Kristen Schaal explains it all in a depressingly funny report. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # _The Daily Show_ Reminds Us That Flying Cars May Exist Before Women Get Equal Pay ## Video: Know Right Now: Working Poor Make Up 73% Of Welfare Recipients [Watch (HLS stream): Know Right Now: Working Poor Make Up 73% Of Welfare Recipients](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/V9HILqow.m3u8) (1:00)  _Published 2015-04-14. Working poor currently make up 73% of welfare recipients._ by [Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Mar 25, 2015 4:44 PM UTC by [Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Mar 25, 2015 4:44 PM UTC A recent [study](http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2015/03/16/at-this-rate-american-women-wont-see-equal-pay-until-2058/) predicts American women won’t earn the same amount of money as men until the year 2058 ([other studies say](http://time.com/3742920/states-equal-pay/) it will take until 2100). Senior Women’s Issues Correspondent Kristen Schaal appeared _The Daily Show_ to talk about a few items that will likely be in existence way before paycheck equality, including flying cars and travel to Mars. Host Jon Stewart then pointed out that, much like equal pay, people have been talking about flying cars for years without making much progress. He asked her to give him a more realistic example, which she does in the form of a news clip showing a scientist unveiling a 3-D printed functional human heart. “You’re telling me we’re going to print a human heart out of a Xerox machine before women get pay equality?” Stewart asked. “No,” Schaal said, “I’m telling you we’ll print hearts 30 years before women get pay equality.” She suggests that women might be better off 3D-printing a different body part entirely if they want the same pay rate as men. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3757898/daily-show-kristen-schaal-women-equal-pay/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3757898/daily-show-kristen-schaal-women-equal-pay/"},"headline":"The Daily Show Reminds Us That Flying Cars May Exist Before Women Get Equal Pay","datePublished":"2015-03-25T16:44:11.000Z","dateModified":"2026-08-04T08:05:58.517Z","description":"Kristen Schaal explains it all in a depressingly funny report.","url":"https://time.com/3757898/daily-show-kristen-schaal-women-equal-pay/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Television","women's rights","The Daily Show","Equality"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Melissa Locker","jobTitle":"","url":"https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3757898/daily-show-kristen-schaal-women-equal-pay/","name":"The Daily Show Reminds Us That Flying Cars May Exist Before Women Get Equal Pay"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"Know Right Now: Working Poor Make Up 73% Of Welfare Recipients","description":"Working poor currently make up 73% of welfare recipients.","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/V9HILqow/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2015-04-14T14:59:21.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/V9HILqow.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/3757898/daily-show-kristen-schaal-women-equal-pay/","duration":"PT1M","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/3757898/daily-show-kristen-schaal-women-equal-pay/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```