This story originally published on February 20, 2018.

For many women, the wage gap needs no explaining: Female workers, on average, earn around 80 cents for every dollar a man makes. The gap is even wider for women of color.

And yet a significant number of men still don't believe it exists.

Sallie Krawcheck, the former Citi CFO who became one of the highest-ranking women on Wall Street, thinks more men in power need to wake up to the realities of the wage gap.

According to the 2018 Money Census report from Ellevest, a women's investing firm Krawcheck founded, 83% of women said they believe in the gender wage gap, "in which men make more than women for performing the same job." Only 61% of men agreed.

Detractors on both the right and the left have said the wage gap is a myth, concocted from skewed stats that don't account for hours worked and experience earned. In other words: While women on the whole might earn less, women aren't making less than men who do the same jobs.

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