Obama White House paid women staffers 13 percent less than men ...
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Jan 15, 2013 - Obama White House paid women staffers less than men in 2012 ... “At a time when families across our country are struggling to make ends meet, ... His nomination of white men to all four second-term cabinet positions so far ...
Do they work the same jobs and have the same experience? Do you have any numbers?
That's not the question when you're dealing with Presidential advisers. This is why the news reports are done with a wink and nod at best although clearly there is definite slants when you're looking at the blaze and daily caller.
The question is this; what did they give up to work at the White House? Bush had a spokesman named Tony Snow who worked for NPR for a while but was probably best known for working for Fox News. For a Fox "correspondent", was actually not as insane as you probably picture him being.
Anyway, to get Snow away from the much more lucrative private sector jobs, you need to pay Snow a bit more. Karen Hughes, who was a Bush adviser through the primaries and election didn't have those opportunities at first. So what you pay her for these positions whose salary isn't set by Congress is up to market forces to a great extent.
When another GOP President is elected and someone like Megan Kelly or Dana Perino (sp?) is approached about being the spokesperson, she'll be in a position to command more money than Scott McClellan did or whomever the campaign spokesperson was during the primaries.
Valarie Jarrett didn't have many options that pay as well as her WH job, I can pretty much assure you. Richard Holbrooke, for example, could have had any number of positions as a university president or advisor to multi-nationals. Paul Volcker was yanked out of retirement for a while to advise on the economy...I would imagine he got paid pretty well for that.
Part of it is experience and part of it is resume. The sad truth is that politics was (and largely still is) a man's game and it will take a while for women to earn their stripes in this arena.
What liberals and Obama supporters (like me) question on this is that our President is very aware of symbolism. As a symbolic gesture, the pay gap (if there is one) should be eliminated. I'm more inflamed about the female/male nose count than the pay rates but if he had done that, the knuckle draggers would be here claiming he is installing women just because they are women so it's a no-win situation for him on that front.