You wake up one morning to your telephone ringing. It is early and you cannot imagine who would be calling at this hour… UNTIL, you answer and a friend wishes you a Happy Birthday… your 55th birthday, to be exact. Yeah, you're excited all right… not!

Along with these good wishes comes a healthy dose of introspection. You remember opening that piece of mail earlier in the week from your credit union urging you to buy life insurance before it too late …too late for what, Dying? Well, we are all going to do that sometime, right? Cannot much be helped, as they say.

Making a real difference on the job isn’t easy.
But what better legacy to leave to your daughters, nieces,
granddaughters, and younger friends than to
eliminate the wage gap, once and for all?

How much money are you losing because you’re not paid fairly? Most working women today, if they’re over thirty, would probably blurt out: No. A man would be getting more.

Their intuitive sense is borne out by the facts. Women working full time—not part time, not on maternity leave, not as consultants—still earn only 77 cents for every full-time male dollar. The wage gap has been stalled for more than a decade. It exists between women and men working at every economic level, from waitresses to corporate lawyers, from nurse’s aides to CEOs.