Inquisitr, April 19, 2014, Saturday

Inquisitr

April 19, 2014, Saturday

Inquisitr (full article)

Gender Gap Legislation Nixed by, Who Else? Republicans


According to the Daily Beast, despite nefarious Republican number-crunching, Obama’s staff is not only made up of equal numbers of men and women, but tailored pay raises have increased women’s pay to an average of $62,000 a year. That’s 88 percent of what men at the White House earn, which isn’t equal yet, but better than the national average of 77 percent. Francine Blau, a professor of economics at Cornell University, has authored studies on the gender pay gap in the United States.