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struggle4progress

(118,290 posts)
Wed Jul 5, 2017, 03:31 PM Jul 2017

White House gender pay gap triples

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

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White House gender pay gap triples (Original Post) struggle4progress Jul 2017 OP
simply an unbelievable amount of winning NRaleighLiberal Jul 2017 #1
republican women go all submissive at the pay window Achilleaze Jul 2017 #2
Is anyone surprised by this. smirkymonkey Jul 2017 #3
No. After republican women mocked America's honorable veterans Achilleaze Jul 2017 #4
What should we do about the gender death gap? Lord_at_War Jul 2017 #5
Form a union gratuitous Jul 2017 #6

Achilleaze

(15,543 posts)
2. republican women go all submissive at the pay window
Wed Jul 5, 2017, 03:50 PM
Jul 2017

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)
3. Is anyone surprised by this.
Wed Jul 5, 2017, 03:58 PM
Jul 2017

Still it sucks. Why any self-respecting woman votes or works for republicans is a complete mystery to me.

Achilleaze

(15,543 posts)
4. No. After republican women mocked America's honorable veterans
Wed Jul 5, 2017, 05:34 PM
Jul 2017

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)
5. What should we do about the gender death gap?
Wed Jul 5, 2017, 05:47 PM
Jul 2017

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.

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