Progressive, Feminist Icon Elizabeth Warren Speaks With Forked Tongue When It Comes to Paying Female Staffers

The gender pay gap in Senator Warren’s office is almost 10 percent wider than the national average. During the 2016 fiscal year, women working for Warren were paid just 71 cents for every dollar paid to men on her staff.

The median annual earnings for women staffers, $52,750, was more than $20,000 less that the median annual earnings for men, $73,750, according to the analysis of publicly available Senate data.”

When calculated using average salaries rather than median, the pay gap expands to just over $26,051, or about 31 percent.   Only full-time staffers who were employed for the entire period in question were included in the calculations.”

The data also shows only one female staffer earning a six-figure salary, compared with five men earning more than the highest paid female Warren staffer. Two of the men were earning above $149,000 annually. The top female salary was $100,625.

The Equal Pay Day concept was created two decades ago by the National Committee on Pay Equity, which uses Census Bureau annual unadjusted gender pay gap data to determine how far into the next year women would have to work to match men’s annual earnings. The 2017 date was April 4.

Senator Warren isn’t the only prominent Democrat whose staff reflects a significant gender pay gap.

Failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton is notorious for the gender pay gaps on her staff, beginning with her time as a U.S. senator, then as secretary of state, and also in both of her presidential campaigns.

Another hypocrite is former President Barack Obama, who often spoke out about the gender pay gap, but always paid women working at the White House less than male staffers.

On Equal Pay Day in 2016 (April 12), Warren made a point to speak out on the issue.

Today is Equal Pay Day, and by the sound of it, you would think it’s some sort of historic holiday commemorating the anniversary of a landmark day that our country guaranteed equal pay for women. But that’s not what this is about. Not even close.”

The game is rigged against women and families, and it has to stop. It is 2016, not 1916 and it’s long past time to eliminate gender discrimination in the workplace.”

Given her position, and her ability to actually do something about the issue, her pay practices are the worst type of hypocrisy and a total disgrace.   It’s all in keeping with the Democrat style of talking a good game and producing no action.

The recent analysis of the Warren data was conducted by the Washington Free Beacon. Senator Warren’s office did not respond to inquiries by the online newspaper regarding the disparity in staff pay.

Source: Washington Free Beacon

Photo: Edward Kimmel