charlotte lisa, caroline drapeau, and cara fritz, eighth graders at nashoba brooks school in concord, massachusetts their documentary is entitled "gauging the wage gap." >> $10,786 is a lot of money that could purchase roughly 2000 starbucks coffees, and 75 luxury handbags. >> $10,786 could also purchase 10 months of rent for a luxury apartment. it could pay for 64 essential doctor visits. >> the gender wage gap is an age-old issue that has existed since men and women have both been a part of the workforce. the gender wage gap is calculated -- -- the average distance and growth of women and men in the economy as a whole. in other words, the gender wage gap is where women are paid less than men in most scenarios. for every one dollar a man earns, a woman is paid $.78. >> women joined the workforce. [indiscernible] quite they were doing jobs that were helping us in the war. they were activists and journalists. >> in the past, the federal government has attempted to make changes regarding the gender wage gap but have not made a large impact. the lilly ledbetter act passed in 2009 and the

charlotte lisa, caroline drapeau, and cara fritz, eighth graders at nashoba brooks school in concord, massachusetts their documentary is entitled "gauging the wage gap." >> $10,786 is a lot of money that could purchase roughly 2000 starbucks coffees, and 75 luxury handbags.