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Christine, today is equal pay day. tell us what that means for all of us. >> the significance, to earn the same amount as their male counter parts, women to work one year and part of the next year, too. that extra time ends today. women earn 80 cents for every dollar men make. that works out to be $10,000 less per year. for a 20-year-old it amounts to $418,800 over a 40-year career. the gap has been slowly narrowing. it will be 44 more years until pay is equal between men and women in america. the issue here is not that women choose lower paying occupations. even in the same job categories men...

>> americans need good wages to make sure they can fill those jobs and making sure the economy rewards hard work for every single american. and part of that is fighting for fair pay for women. because when women succeed, america succeeds. >> welcome back to "hardball." democrats continued the offensive against republicans. it was a loud and clear rallying cry to the heart of the democratic base, women. the president spoke as part of the equal payday which focused on the very real gender gap, the pay gap in america today. according to the u.s. census, women make 77 cents for every dollar men ma...

Dollar men make, a fact which president obama put into context today. >> equal payday means that a woman has to work about this far into 2014 to earn what a man earned in 2013. a woman has to work about three more months in order to get what a man got, because she's paid less. that's not fair. that's like adding an extra six miles to a marathon. that's not right. >> president obama also signed two executive orders. one prohibits federal contractor from retaliating against employees who discuss their compensation. and the other is for federal contractors to reveal more about

An assistant on the cosby show and is now the owner and beauty editor of her own copy. thank you both for joining us. >> thank you. >> now, we as we talk about the dream moving forward have to also deal with the fact that we have had gender inequality in this country. and you have broken barriers and you have had to deal with the gender inequality and gender bias. and even today, women still only make 77 cents for every dollar men make. how did you break through, lisa and get from where you were, doing the assistant work on the cosby show to how now everybody is aware. >> well, a lot of it com...

And inclusive. joining me now are two leaders who broke down the barriers in the business world. sally crachek who went from a junior banker to a wall street powerhouse, and lisa price, who started out as an assistant on the "cosby show" and is now owner of her own beauty and cosmetic company with sales topping $50 million. thank you both for joining me. now, we, as we talk about the dream moving forward, have to also deal with the fact that we've had gender inequality in this country, and you broke in barriers and you've had to deal with the gender inequality and gender bias and even today wo...