White House Still Pays Women Less - Granite Grok

White House Still Pays Women Less

equalpaymythIf you are gonna’ play with pay, then Democrats should explain why the White House ‘Pay Gap’ is STILL greater than that of the entire DC area?

If activists are going to use median annual salaries to claim women are paid less than men, then they ought to be consistent and call out President Obama’s White House. …

“…female staffers in the Obama White House currently earn 89.25% of the median salary for male staffers, or 89.25 cents for every $1 men earn, and there is a 10.75% gender pay gap at the Obama White House,” Perry wrote. “That pay gap is slightly smaller than the 15.8% gender pay gap at the White House last year, but is still more than 2.5 times greater than the average gender pay gap for the Washington, D.C., labor market of only 4% according to the most recent data available from the Department of Labor.” . . .

Activists, naturally, don’t want to acknowledge that Obama’s White House pays women less because, as they’re almost exclusively all Leftists. They would have to tie themselves in knots to explain how this pay gap is different from some other pay gap.

But it’s not different — it uses the same over-simplistic measurement as all similar derivations of the gap. The main reason women earn less in the Obama White House is that more senior positions are occupied by men and more junior positions are occupied by women. You can judge the intention here for yourself, but if you’re going to make excuses for Obama, you might want to apply the same excuses to any other employer where this is the case.

That will never happen.

Democrats don’t care what women make or why, they only care about politicizing it for power. Just ask a black Republican lesbian woman (or any Republican who is one or more of those) how Democrats feel about their health, race, gender, or wages and you’ll discover Democrats don’t give a damn about H8 either.

H/T Instapundit

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