Recently, Democrats have called a lot of attention to pay disparity between men and women. However, on the day that President Obama trumpeted support for strengthening equal pay laws, a question between disparity on his very own White House staff seemed to catch the administration off guard.
An analysis by the American Enterprise Institute found that women staffers in the White House made about 88 cents on the dollar, compared with male staffers.
Female federal workers in the early years of the Obama administration had a median salary of nearly 93% of what their male counterparts earned, according to 2011 figures from the U.S. Merit Systems Protection Board, an agency that works to protect the rights of federal employees.
This information doesn't exactly tout the pay parity the White House is promoting.
The fact that an administration that prides itself on
having made its first priority signing the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act
into law hasn't achieved equal pay for equal work demonstrates the
complexity in reaching complete parity, said Jennifer Lawless, director
of Women & Politics Institute at American University.
Check out CNN's White House working on tending its own house on pay disparity for more.
What are your guys' thoughts? - I'm getting increasingly frustrated with the shady politics of trying to rally the 'female vote' on both sides of the aisle. This is one of many examples over the course of the last year as parties clash in the "war over women".
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