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By Christopher Ingraham
July 5 at 12:38 PM
... The median female White House employee is drawing a salary of $72,650 in 2017, compared to the median male salary of $115,000. "The typical female staffer in Trump's White House earns 63.2 cents per $1 earned by a typical male staffer," Perry writes.
The 37 percent gender pay gap in President Trump's White House is more than double the 17 percent gender pay gap nationally. According to the Pew Research center, the Trump White House gender gap is wider than the national gender pay gap stood in 1980 ...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2017/07/05/white-house-gender-pay-gap-more-than-triples-under-trump/?utm_term=.f84a7bc222bb
NRaleighLiberal
(60,034 posts)Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)In the ongoing republican War on Women, this is one of the goals: submissive and "obedient" republican female proles such as those now cheaply servicing the republican Draft-Dodger-in-Chief, Comrade Casino, and his alt-right cabal of colluding republican male cronies.
Complicit and compliant Handmaid models upscale republican couture:
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)Still it sucks. Why any self-respecting woman votes or works for republicans is a complete mystery to me.
Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)and then gave adoring support to the republican Draft-Dodger-in-Chief, Comrade Casino, it was plain they'd sold out America and their honor.
Lord_at_War
(61 posts)Men suffer 93% of the workplace deaths in our nation. And nobody complains... What should Gov't do about that?
I'll worry about a "pay gap" when when women are 50% of "lumberpeople", "fishers", "cabbies", "high iron workers", or hanging off the back of a garbage truck.
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)If you can.