Does Hillary Clinton Care About the Gender Pay Gap? Not When She Was Senator
Hillary Clinton speaks in Washington, D.C., during her tenure as secretary of state. (Northern Ireland Executive / CC BY-ND 2.0)
Turns out despite all this talk about Hillary Clinton being a feminist candidate, she did not practice what she preaches. It’s a pretty a widespread statistic that women tend to make 77 cents for each dollar that men make in the same positions. The presidential candidate has even tweeted about these figures:
20 years ago, women made 72 cents on the dollar to men. Today it's still just 77 cents. More work to do. #EqualPay #NoCeilings
— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) April 9, 2014
Yet, as a New York senator, Clinton took this disparity a few cents further and paid her female staff about 72 cents per dollar her male staff were paid, according to the Washington Free Beacon.
Hillary Clinton portrays herself as a champion of women in the workforce, but women working for her in the U.S. Senate were paid 72 cents for each dollar paid to men, according to a Washington Free Beacon analysis of her Senate years’ salary data.
During those years, the median annual salary for a woman working in Clinton’s office was $15,708.38 less than the median salary for a man, according to the analysis of data compiled from official Senate expenditure reports.
The analysis compiled the annual salaries paid to staffers for an entire fiscal year of work from the years 2002 to 2008. Salaries of employees who were not part of Clinton’s office for a full fiscal year were not included. Because the Senate fiscal year extends from Oct. 1 to Sept. 30, Clinton’s first year in the Senate, which began on Jan. 3, 2001, was also not included in the analysis.
Despite the numbers, Clinton and her allies have long-touted her as “a fighter for equal pay.”
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— Posted by Natasha Hakimi Zapata
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