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A true ally also has something to risk.

For example, sharing salary information.

If I have a white colleague and want to find out, are we getting

paid the same amount, that person would have to be willing to risk disclosing information that might not serve her, but for the greater cause,

for allyship will divulge that information or take similar actions.

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money. Today we are going to talk through some hard truths,

but we're also going to share some solutions,

some action steps that we can all really take

to make a difference.

Women of color are behind white women in almost every financial and career measurement.

There are so many statistics on this and they are all one more demoralizing than the next.

But let me just give you this.

We talk a lot about the fact that women overall

earn just 80 cents for every dollar that a man earns.

But black women earn just 61 cents.

Native American women earn just 58 cents and Latina women earn just 53 cents and unfortunately

the gender wage gap doesn't improve much even as women of color climb the corporate ladder.

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