White House pays women 80 cents for every dollar paid to men

[niyad]

(and they are working willingly for the pussy-grabber in chief!)

White House pays women 80 cents for every dollar paid to men




White House pays women 20% less than men 00:55
Story highlights

Women working in the White House make $20,995 less on average than their male colleagues
As of 2015, the federal government gender pay gap was 11 percent

(CNN)Women working in the White House earn an average salary of 80 cents for every dollar paid to their male colleagues, a CNN analysis found. That's a gender pay gap wider than the national average of 82 cents on the dollar, according to the Labor Department. The average salary among men working in the White House was nearly $104,000, according to an analysis of the White House's annual report to Congress, which was released Friday. For women, it was about $83,000. That's $21,000 less on average.

The disparity is primarily due to more women filling lower-ranking jobs. Half the men working at the White House make $95,000 or more annually, while half the women $70,100 or less.
The top salary for permanent employees at the White House is $179,700. Among the 22 employees making that, only six are women. The White House included the salaries of 18 staffers on loan from other departments in its annual report, but CNN removed them in doing its analysis.

Trump has not made the wage gap an issue, but his daughter and adviser Ivanka Trump tweeted her support of closing the gender pay gap on April 4, writing "#EqualPayDay is a reminder that women deserve equal pay for equal work. We must work to close the gender pay gap!"
In terms of the number of employees working for the White House, the staff is almost evenly split, with about 47 percent of the 359 regular employees being female and 53 percent male.
As of 2015, the federal government gender pay gap was 11 percent, according to a report by the Office of Personnel Management.

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http://www.cnn.com/2017/07/02/politics/white-house-gender-pay-gap/index.html

[pirateshipdude]

1. This would be one of the many reasons "Identity politics" matter. Interesting this. Eom

[surrealAmerican]

2. edited out by request from Athena

Last edited Mon Jul 3, 2017, 02:14 PM - Edit history (2)

[niyad]

3. you do realize they were talking about drumpfy's staff, yes?

[B2G]

4. Did Obama do a better job in this regard?

This problem can be found on both sides of the aisle.

[niyad]

5. please cite reliable stats for that.

[B2G]

7. Here.

Male-female pay gap remains entrenched at White House

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/male-female-pay-gap-remains-entrenched-at-white-house/2014/07/01/dbc6c088-0155-11e4-8fd0-3a663dfa68ac_story.html?utm_term=.3c5ed48c4f7b

[niyad]

8. thank you. the article did point out that the gap during Obama's admin was 13%, now it's 20%

[surrealAmerican]

6. I admit I find this article confusing.

They cite 2015 stats for the disparity, yet this is about Trump's staff? How?
What am I misunderstanding here?

Do we not have current statistics that might make this point?

[athena]

10. It's only confusing if you don't bother to actually read it.

The article states that the report was released on Friday. If you click on the report, you will see that Trump's people, such as Ivanka, are listed in it. The article is about Trump's White House, not about Obama's White House.

At the very end, they compare the 20-cent wage gap under Trump to the 11-cent wage gap in 2015, under President Obama.

I think you should edit your post to remove the false statement in it. It will cause too many people to be misinformed. Too few DUers actually bother to read articles. Too many DUers like to make snap judgments based on post titles, often going away completely misinformed.

[athena]

9. No, it is not. It is from last Friday and is about Trump's White House.

Read the excerpt carefully. The article does NOT say that the figure is based on statistics from 2015. It says that in 2015, the pay gap was 11 cents. How do you get 80 cents on the dollar if the pay gap is only 11 cents?

The article is not about information from 2015; it is about information released last Friday:

"The average salary among men working in the White House was nearly $104,000, according to an analysis of the White House's annual report to Congress, which was released Friday. For women, it was about $83,000. That's $21,000 less on average."

This is, indeed, about Trump, who took the pay gap from 11 cents to 20 cents. The pay gap may not have been zero under Obama, but it was a lot better than it is now.

[mythology]

11. The article also states that the women are in lower positions

Are they in lower positions by their own choice? Sure the Trump administration isn't exactly friendly toward women, but even in the Obama administration there was some difference. How much of that difference is explainable by the choices (whether conscious or otherwise) that women make versus bias (again conscious or otherwise) those in a position to hire have.

I think you can certainly put some of the blame on Trump, but I don't know if you can put all of the blame on Trump.