Senate Dems Demand Equal Pay for Equal Work, Pay Female Staffers 35% Less Than Males
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May 24, 2012 The Blog

I am disappoint.

You know how you know what a liberal is doing?

Look at what they are accusing conservatives of.

Case in point:

A group of Democratic female senators on Wednesday declared war on the so-called “gender pay gap,” urging their colleagues to pass the aptly named Paycheck Fairness Act when Congress returns from recess next month. However, a substantial gender pay gap exists in their own offices, a Washington Free Beacon analysis of Senate salary data reveals.

Of the five senators who participated in Wednesday’s press conference—Barbara Mikulski (D., Md.), Patty Murray (D., Wash.), Debbie Stabenow (D., Mich.), Dianne Feinstein (D., Calif.) and Barbara Boxer (D., Calif.)—three pay their female staff members significantly less than male staffers.

Murray, who has repeatedly accused Republicans of waging a “war a women,” is one of the worst offenders. Female members of Murray’s staff made about $21,000 less per year than male staffers in 2011, a difference of 35.2 percent.

Yeah, but that’s just a small number of Senate Democrats.  It’s not that bad, right?

The employee gender pay gap among Senate Democrats was not limited to Murray, Boxer, and Feinstein. Of the 50 members of the Senate Democratic caucus examined in the analysis, 37 senators paid their female staffers less than male staffers.

Senators elected in 2010—Joe Manchin, Chris Coons, and Richard Blumenthal—were not considered due to incomplete salary data.

Women working for Senate Democrats in 2011 pulled in an average salary of $60,877. Men made about $6,500 more.

Can’t wait to see them try to explain this away when the media starts hammering them on it.

Yeah, I was kidding.

Photo Credit:  AFL-CIO (heh, that’s funny)
3 Comments
  1. Andrew Riley May 24, 2012 at 4:15 pm -

    Bush’s fault. Racist.

  2. SaulRosenburg May 24, 2012 at 4:27 pm -

    I am not surprised that the Dems. are exploiting women and then accusing others of doing so. That has been their gameplan from the beginning. From Slavery to Civil Rights to Monica, their hypocracy is ledgendary. Remember Clinton’s war on sexual harassment which he started calling “Harris-mint”?

  3. SaulRosenburg May 24, 2012 at 4:31 pm -

    When do we get to see a follow up vid. of you going back to Oregon to hand deliver an invoice? “Sir, for tax purposes, I need you to sign this form for services rendered . . . your memo on the check itself is insuficient . . .”