I work in financial services and as sometimes happens, we were all out at a half-hour and

one of the men on my team that I was supervising sort of let slip what he was making in base

pay each year.

And I remember just sort of stopping and kind of rewinding and like what?

He was making almost $20,000 more per year than I was.

I remember just being completely forward.

He wasn't more experienced.

He wasn't older.

There wasn't any good reason, you know, especially considering that I was managing him and training

him kind of in my footsteps.

And I ended up going to the director of our department and I will never forget he looked

at me and he said, unfortunately that's just with the market demands that we pay you.

If you can prove to me that the market would demand we pay you more, go for it.

I remember having this glass shattering moment, realizing that the company had no interest

in paying me what I was worth and that they were going to do whatever they could to pay

me the least amount that they could for as long as they could.

That was it today, explain listener who shared her story with us and we asked for listener

stories because today is equal pay day.

It is the day that women would have to work until to match what men earned in 2018.

It changes a little bit every year.

Which is to say that this year women would have had to have worked from January 2018 straight

through today, April 2nd, 2019, to earn as much as men did in 2018.

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