--- description: The pay gap amounts to $431,000 over a lifetime. Women tweeted using #withoutthewagegapiwould to share what they would do with that cash title: #WithoutTheWageGapIWould Shows What Women Would Do With Extra Cash image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- * [Living](/tag/time-section-living/) ## Living Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # This Is What Women Would Do If They Were Paid the Same As Men  by [Charlotte Alter](/author/charlotte-alter/)  ## Charlotte Alter Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Senior Correspondent Apr 8, 2014 10:14 PM CUT  by [Charlotte Alter](/author/charlotte-alter/)  ## Charlotte Alter Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Senior Correspondent Apr 8, 2014 10:14 PM CUT _Updated at 9:20 ET on April 9_ It’s been a really good week for wage equality. First, Obama [announced two measures](http://time.com/53722/barack-obama-midterm-elections-equal-pay/ "undefined") to help close the gender wage gap among federal workers. And, in honor of what’s dubbed “[Equal Pay Day](http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2014/04/08/on-equal-pay-day-everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-gender-pay-gap/ "undefined"),” (April 8) thousands took to Twitter using the [#withoutthewagegapiwould](https://twitter.com/search?q=%23withoutthewagegapiwould&src=typd "undefined") to share what they would do with the extra cash if there were no difference between what women and men earn for comparable jobs. The hashtag was started by Elizabeth Plank and Soraya Chemaly in their [PolicyMic ](http://www.policymic.com/articles/87077/here-s-everything-women-could-buy-without-the-wage-gap "undefined")piece on what women could do with all that extra cash. > [](https://twitter.com/BrennaME/status/453627054961881090) > [](https://twitter.com/jennpozner/status/453620755457388546) > [](https://twitter.com/TheBurningBra/status/453567050292539392) > [](https://twitter.com/StegoSarahs/status/453561379799068672) > [](https://twitter.com/amybreck/status/453526281221849088) Even dude feminists chimed in: > [](https://twitter.com/cmclymer/status/453541239057833984) > [](https://twitter.com/NicholasFerroni/status/453575204665851904) (Is it just me, or does this all sound really good for the economy?) \[h/t [PolicyMic](http://www.policymic.com/articles/87077/here-s-everything-women-could-buy-without-the-wage-gap "undefined")\] ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/54243/withoutthewagegapiwould-what-women-would-do-with-fair-wages/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/54243/withoutthewagegapiwould-what-women-would-do-with-fair-wages/"},"headline":"This Is What Women Would Do If They Were Paid the Same As Men","datePublished":"2014-04-08T22:14:07.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T08:55:07.191Z","description":"The pay gap amounts to $431,000 over a lifetime. Women tweeted using #withoutthewagegapiwould to share what they would do with that cash","url":"https://time.com/54243/withoutthewagegapiwould-what-women-would-do-with-fair-wages/","keywords":["Living","feminism","Barack Obama","politics","Internet","wage gap"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Charlotte Alter","jobTitle":"Senior Correspondent","url":"https://time.com/author/charlotte-alter/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-living/","name":"Living"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/54243/withoutthewagegapiwould-what-women-would-do-with-fair-wages/","name":"This Is What Women Would Do If They Were Paid the Same As Men"}}]}] ```