I find this amusing. Perhaps slightly suspicious, in places – I am a cynical man, sometimes – but amusing. I especially enjoyed watching the people who visibly did not want to yell at Hillary Clinton over her vicious and sexist gender wage disparity*.
Continue reading Watch Hillary Clinton supporters find out about her gender wage disparity issue!
Last month it came out that Democratic Senator Mark Begich – who made a big splash pounding the table and shouting about gender pay inequality – doesn’t practice what he preaches. He apparently doesn’t even try.
“Alaska women make just 74 cents on the dollar compared to Alaska men,” wrote Begich in an email to supporters this week. “And anyone who wants to tell Alaska women that they’re not working hard enough should be ready to find out just how tough Alaska women are.”
The average female salary in Begich’s office is a staggering $23,504 less than the average male salary. Women working for Begich are paid just 71 cents for each dollar paid to men, even less than the statewide statistic used by the senator in his email.
Continue reading Sen. Mark Begich (D, Alaska) pays female staffers 71% of what he pays male ones.
Nice of them to admit to it, finally.
“I wouldn’t hold up the White House as the perfect example here,” Josh Earnest says of pay equity for women.
— Brian Hughes (@BrianHughesDC) July 2, 2014
Josh Earnest is the new White House Press Secretary, of course – but while I applaud his shockingly new ability to detect objective reality I do have to ask the following questions: Continue reading White House Press Secretary [Josh Earnest] confesses to continuing gender pay inequity at White House.