Reflections on the 50th Anniversary of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s 'I Have a Dream' Speech

One of the great injustices that still exists is the gender gap between what men and women earn. For every dollar a man earns, white women earn 77 cents, Black women earn 69 cents and Latina women earn just 57 cents. According to the National Women's Law Center, a typical woman who works full time, year-round will lose $443,360 over a 40-year period due to the wage gap; a woman would have to work almost 12 years longer to earn the same lifetime salary as her male peer.