Everyone has heard of the American wage gap: the phenomenon where a white woman, on average, makes 78 percent of the money made by a white man. Women of other races make even less, with Black women making 64 percent, and Hispanic and Latina women making 54 percent. It's not just a statistic; it's real life. And in 2016, a woman named Ashley Louise found out her male co-worker was making, well, a lot more money than her. "An egregious amount," she recalls. Frustrated with this wild discrepancy and her slowing career advancement, she went to a women's development event from an