Tuesday is Equal Pay Day, which symbolizes the over 15 months a woman must work to make the same as their male counterpart in 12 months last year.
U-S Senator Kirsten Gillibrand is calling for passage of the Equal Pay Act and the Minimum Wage Fairness Act.
In a conference call, Gillibrand says it fundamentally disturbs her that in 2014, women make on average 77 cents on every dollar a man earns, and it's even less for women of color.
And in the Rochester/Finger Lakes region, an estimated 100-thousand households depend on a mother's earnings.
But working women make on average 107-dollars less than men each week.
She adds women make up 62 percent of the minimum wage workforce, and it's simply unacceptable that a single working parent working 40 hours a week earns 290 dollars.
Gillibrand says raising the minimum wage to 10.10 an hour would increase America's GDP by about 22-billion dollars over three years, generating 85-thousand new jobs in the meantime.
Both pieces of legislation are expected to be voted on by the Senate this month.