‘War on Women’?: White House Found to Pay Women Less on Average Than Men
- Posted on April 11, 2012 at 5:08pm by
Erica Ritz
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In light of the so-called Republican “war on women,” the Washington Free Beacon recently investigated the internal pay scale of employees at Obama’s White House, to see how “fairly” they are treated.
(Related: ‘Almost Uniformly White’ – How White is Obama’s Campaign Staff, Really?)
The site reports:
According to the 2011 annual report on White House staff, female employees earned a median annual salary of $60,000, which was about 18 percent less than the median salary for male employees ($71,000).
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President Obama has frequently criticized the gender pay gap, such as the one that exists in White House.
‘Paycheck discrimination hurts families who lose out on badly needed income,’ he said in a July 2010 statement. ‘And with so many families depending on women’s wages, it hurts the American economy as a whole.’
(Photo: Steve Fenn/ABC)
Many on the right are impartial to pay distinctions, believing the best qualified individual should be hired–regardless of gender. However, after months of fending of charges that they are sexist and literally “waging a war” on women, some find it interesting that the Obama administration doesn’t necessarily practice the absolute equality it preaches.
Just today, for instance, Obama’s official Twitter page wrote, “‘I was shocked and disappointed to hear that Mitt Romney is not willing to stand up for women and their families.” The tweet was criticizing Romney for not yet endorsing the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009, which makes it easier for women to file gender discrimination suits.
Back in 2011, TIME’s Amy Sullivan brought up the issue: “There’s a looseness to Obama when he’s hanging out with the boys club that doesn’t appear in co-ed gatherings…The president blows off steam on the golf course with male colleagues and friends. He takes to the White House basketball court with NBA stars, men’s college players, and male cabinet members and [male] members of Congress.”
And now, people like former Clinton press secretary Dee Dee Myers are saying, “Women are Obama’s base, and they don’t seem to have enough people who look like the base inside of their own inner circle.”
So critics ask: Where does this leave the administration? Hiring unnecessary employees on the taxpayer’s dime to ensure they possess the equal diversity they demand of everyone else? Or will they stop attacking Republicans as waging a “war on women” when they, too, seem to hire the best-qualified candidate (and pay them accordingly), regardless of gender?
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WoBuYaoTweet
Posted on April 18, 2012 at 7:38pmThese allegations are nonsense.
All federal employees make the same salary for jobs at the same pay grade.
Salaries are published annually. Pay only differs by grade, time in the job, and supervisory responsibility. http://www.opm.gov/oca/12tables/index.asp
For the record, Obama has 53% more women in the top-100 positions than GWB had in 2007.
Obama in 2011:
~202 women (44.5%) out of 454 employees
7 of the top-paid tier of employees are women.
40 of the top 100 are women.
The lowest-paid person on the list is a man! Scandal!
https://opendata.socrata.com/Government/2011-Report-to-Congress-on-White-House-Staff/73t8-rw4g
GW Bush in 2007:
~ 206 women (46.5%) out of 443. But most in lower-paying jobs!
Only 3 of the top-paid WH Staff were women.
Only 26 of the top 100 were women!
Barely 1/4 of the top 100?!?!
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/opinions/graphics/2007stafflistsalary.html
So much for that talking point.”
Report Post »WarpKat
Posted on April 17, 2012 at 9:50pmIt‘s funny how you guys fail to mention that you didn’t group the list by similar positions, which clearly shows women, in some cases, making MORE than men in the same positions.
Conservative hypocrites.
Report Post »BARBARAF
Posted on April 12, 2012 at 4:45pmCAROLINAGIRL…And then there were the strange stories from Larry Sinclair:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Li19mPc-R3k&feature=relmfu
Report Post »CarolinaGirl
Posted on April 12, 2012 at 12:06pm“There’s a looseness to Obama when he’s hanging out with the boys club…..”
He‘s loose with other men because he’s effeminate.
Report Post »gottalovem
Posted on April 12, 2012 at 6:12amTruth be known, most of these “White House employees” are unnecessary and should be sent packing. There us no reason to maintain a large staff like that. It is a waste of our tax dollars. Time to cut the fat! Obama has exploded the number of czars and other unelected advisors so he doesn’t have top do much of anything himself but campaign and vacation.
Report Post »RamonPreston
Posted on April 12, 2012 at 12:47amYou will love this one! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8h0EdpvZ23s
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on April 12, 2012 at 12:36amForgot the Bonus… of ‘all you can steal’!
Report Post »wingnut1955
Posted on April 12, 2012 at 12:18amQuoting Dee Dee Myers makes me laugh, because she was indeed the Clinton Press Secretary for President Clinton. But let’s look at the facts. She was given the title and a pay cut, then George Stephanopoulos was given her job under another tittle and given her pay rate and her office space. She was just an under payed figure head, so President Clinton could say that he had the 1st female Press Secretary. She has no creditability because she took that job and still brags about how she was teated.
Report Post »blackyb
Posted on April 12, 2012 at 12:08amSo Obama does not like blacks around him. Note: there is one darker face in the crowd, an older person. Not sure if this one is a black person. Obama does not like the black race of people. He does not trust them or even thinks they are capable enough to get things done except the dirty work, it looks like to me. That picture is worth a thousand words to me.
Report Post »barber2
Posted on April 11, 2012 at 9:04pmObama‘s use of the War on Women allegation against Republicans really boils down to the Democrat Party’s War on the Catholic Church. Big Daddy Democrat does NOT want to deal with a church which does not follow his “ Affordable Health ” directives and which implies that Big Daddy’s moral code is not one it can endorse.
Report Post »Look4DBigPicture
Posted on April 11, 2012 at 8:36pmWomen are so easily swayed by snake charmers and con artists. THIS is what Obama and his liberals friends really think about women. They manipulate, manipulate, manipulate and women fall for it every time.
Report Post »db321
Posted on April 11, 2012 at 10:25pmYour so right – Look 4.
Women will sell out their own kids future and their chance in eternity because they think it is cool. I have come to the conclusion. Every Dictator promises promises promises and then once they take power – They take take take – Obama is worth a couple of Million right now – after the election – he will be worth Billions – because he will cut off all entitlements and pay it too himself – If you don’t work – you won‘t eat will be Obama’s new slogan.
Qaddafi was worth over 50 Billion when he died and his people were starving. Name any dictator, and I’ll show you a Man that has taken everything away from his people.
Report Post »Apple Bite
Posted on April 11, 2012 at 8:05pmIf you’re a female, you should feel insulted to have your intelligence challenged by that mental midget…
Report Post »Look4DBigPicture
Posted on April 11, 2012 at 8:39pmNot The View women … look at their faces. They’re totally mesmerized by this charlatan. (barf)
Report Post »barber2
Posted on April 11, 2012 at 9:09pm4D: He is the “ Hooray For Hollywood ” president ! A left over from the President Palmer Days ! Looks good . Walks cool. Surface ? Unknown…. about as much as his hidden school records. Smoke and Mirrors. Surface. Hollywood.
Report Post »blackyb
Posted on April 12, 2012 at 12:01amThey get to touch him, they think that counts for extra pay. He will have burkas on them all if he stays in much longer.
Report Post »Tri-ox
Posted on April 11, 2012 at 7:28pmLiberal men should be paid a higher wage, and, should receive additional ‘hazard pay’ for having to look at the liberal hag-women in the obama White House.
Report Post »Tigress1
Posted on April 11, 2012 at 8:58pmAwww! That’s too harsh! Why would any liberal woman want to fix herself up for a liberal man? The men don’t look any better! Example: Henry Waxman. :)
http://cheezburger.com/3795571456
Report Post »SheriS
Posted on April 11, 2012 at 6:57pmObama only uses and pays attention to wormen when he can benefit from it! I find all his talk about women horrifying since the country is in the worst mess in my lifetime—I lived thru the Carter years in the horrible town of Detroit where homes in my neighborhood were being robbed nightly. That was easier to endure then listening to Obama spew his lies about everything just so he can be reelected with all the swooning women around him. God please save our country from this man so anxious to destroy it! Maybe then we can find the sanity that resided here prior to the great Obama!
Report Post »Lucy Larue
Posted on April 11, 2012 at 6:31pmWomen are their own worst enemies. Sad non?!
All those smiling women supporting President Dunham, A.K.A. Foulfellow of Pinocchio fame, are dumber than a sack of HAMMERS!
“We have met the ENEMY and HE is US”! POGO
Report Post »RJJinGadsden
Posted on April 11, 2012 at 6:26pmCan’t help it, but LOL!
Report Post »imsteph
Posted on April 11, 2012 at 6:10pmhe sees women as tools.
Report Post »he sees women as a rock star sees women.
he sees women as a sheikh sees women.
Detroit paperboy
Posted on April 11, 2012 at 9:34pmExcept, he’s a closet homosexual……
Report Post »blackyb
Posted on April 11, 2012 at 5:52pmIf they pay by degree of ugly. Helen Thomas and Nancy Pelosi would own the world.
Report Post »Apple Bite
Posted on April 11, 2012 at 8:07pmNot if Francis Fox-Piven had anything to say about it…
Report Post »Polarized America
Posted on April 11, 2012 at 5:46pm….off topic
it was just reported that ..Zimmerman is now in custody
Report Post »CatB
Posted on April 11, 2012 at 6:14pmYes .. praying for his safety ..
Report Post »simplygilly
Posted on April 11, 2012 at 5:46pmCome on, let’s be fair. Obama’s Muslim heritage indicates women are very clearly worth less than men. They should be grateful they are allowed to work. Anything more would be a dishonor and we all know where that can lead.
Report Post »rs9
Posted on April 11, 2012 at 6:12pmYeah don’t the muslims make their women walk three steps behind the men
Report Post »RamonPreston
Posted on April 11, 2012 at 6:48pmTo bad they don’t make their women keep their mouths shut…Michelle Obama.
Report Post »bleuze
Posted on April 11, 2012 at 7:49pmAnd don’t forget Obama about a month ago invited the Muslim Brotherhood to the White House!
Report Post »TheBurningTruth
Posted on April 11, 2012 at 8:44pmThe “follow by three steps” was Chinese not ********. ********* don’t even let their women out of the house!
Report Post »MeteoricLimbo
Posted on April 11, 2012 at 5:45pmThis adminestration has the need to fabricate dissension….disgusting frankly and VERY unpresidential
Report Post »altannt
Posted on April 11, 2012 at 5:35pmHere you go ladies your great Obuma is now lying to you.
Report Post »CatB
Posted on April 11, 2012 at 5:41pmHis lips were moving .. right???? … yes he is lying .. anyone hear Glenn this morning .. Obama starts stuttering .. he is lying for SURE!
Report Post »scuba13
Posted on April 11, 2012 at 5:43pmIt wasn’t a lie. It was ineptitude with insufficient cover.
Report Post »blackyb
Posted on April 11, 2012 at 5:48pmMost of those women are so ugly maybe they can’t tell the women from the men, or think their pets are at work. Maybe some are trannys. If they all are trannys, then their pay would be what?
Report Post »joe conservative
Posted on April 11, 2012 at 5:50pmThe whole “war on women” thing is just so pathetic. Everything about it is a complete lie. There’s a new youtube video that does a great job exposing it. For all that think Obamacare is a good thing, they also need to see this one. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BhpXDNIocJw
Report Post »CatB
Posted on April 11, 2012 at 6:23pmThey can‘t have the election on Obama’s record … because it is a disaster!
OMG 2012!
Report Post »Anse
Posted on April 11, 2012 at 5:28pmthere is no way there is a “war on women”
there is literally no way any member of any privileged group has ever done anything that might be detrimental to the members of an underprivileged group. if you think otherwise you’re a brainwashed liberal sheep
Report Post »HKS
Posted on April 11, 2012 at 5:15pmHow is that Obama war on women working out. He has filled the unemployment lines with women for three years and now wants to blame it on conservatives. I’ll bet if you do some close checking most of them are white woman. Part of Obama’s “get whitey tour 2012”.
Report Post »NHwinter
Posted on April 11, 2012 at 5:14pmWhat silly, giggly women these Obama followers are!!!! They want a lying rock star instead of a decent, honest man who truly cares about America. Fools.
Report Post »Locked
Posted on April 11, 2012 at 5:45pm“They want a lying rock star instead of a decent, honest man who truly cares about America.”
Unfortunately, Ron Paul likely won’t win :-/
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