{"id":39368,"date":"2012-04-13T13:35:27","date_gmt":"2012-04-13T19:35:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/?p=39368"},"modified":"2012-04-13T13:43:05","modified_gmt":"2012-04-13T19:43:05","slug":"women-paid-significantly-less-in-obama-white-house-than-their-male-counterparts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/?p=39368","title":{"rendered":"“Women paid significantly less in Obama White House than their male counterparts”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hilary Rosen’s<\/a> OUTRAGE over this attack on working women<\/a> has evidently been so loud only dogs can hear it.\u00a0 Daily Mail:<\/p>\n

All of President Barack Obama’s employees may not be treated equally in the White House, as recently released financial records show that female employees earn significantly less than their male counterparts.<\/span><\/p>\n

Using the 2011 annual report of White House staff salaries that was submitted to Congress, an $11,000 difference is clear between the median female employee salary and the median male employee salary.<\/span><\/p>\n

This news comes on top of continued criticism- of both President Obama and prior presidents- that women are underrepresented in the White House. <\/p>\n

Of the administration’s 20 top earners, who each took home a tidy $172,200 for their work in 2011, only six of those were women.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Now, naturally, work history, experience, time spent on maternity leave, history of part-time employment, etc. — all of these things factor into market value for a particular job candidate, something conservatives \/ classical liberals understand, having themselves a rational relationship with markets.\u00a0 Which means that, while women may on average be underpaid, we recognize that that average is based only superficially on sex\/gender, and that other, more relevant factors create the perception<\/em> of bias or discrimination where one doesn’t exist.<\/p>\n

Consequently, we can defend falsely suggested inequity by pointing to those factors — and by then pointing out how women and men of comparable experience and situation share comparable salaries.<\/p>\n

Whereas the Democrats, who run on perception and who look to demagogue issues, are forced either to overpay their less-experienced female employees, or else hope that nobody points out the hypocrisy of pushing solutions to a non-existent problem, only to revert to market norms.<\/p>\n