One potentially effective step in closing the pay gap that women can take immediately is to

One potentially effective step in closing the pay gap that women can take immediately is to speak up, ask for more money in a form of a raise. There has always been talk and truth behind why men get paid more for doing the same job that a woman is. Unfortunately, in most companies this is truth. Women know this but accept the pay they are given, if they wish to see change, ask for change.