When my daughter was getting ready to enter the workforce, I told her there are a lot of reasons why women earn less than men. I didn’t get into how unfair it is, just that one reason is that women don’t ask, and that’s one thing a woman has control over. She took that to heart and negotiated right out of the gate. She didn’t accept the first/safe offer at her internship and negotiated more at her second choice. She’s also not sitting around waiting for her current company ‘to do better.’ She’s applying for jobs and getting good feedback when she does. So, like, you go, girl.