Echo From Floor As DeLauro Calls For Pay Equity
by Melissa Bailey | Sep 5, 2012 7:43am
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Posted to: Election 2012, Equality, Labor
CHARLOTTE, N.C.—As Rosa DeLauro took a stand for equal pay on a national stage, a woman who toiled in a New Britain hardware factory sang out a mighty “all right!”
Shirley Black, a 72-year-old New Britain councilwoman, was one of the two dozen Connecticut delegates who got to the Time Warner Cable Arena in time Tuesday to see Connecticut U.S. Rep. DeLauro of New Haven take the stage on the first night of the Democratic National Convention here.
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posted by: Westville Mom | September 5, 2012 10:03am
“Do as I say, not as I do ....”
“Government records show that despite the Democratic National Convention’s early focus on salary equality for women, President Barack Obama has consistently paid his own female staffers less than men who perform similar or identical duties.”
This is from an article in The Daily Caller (URL below.)
Yes, the Democrats sure do talk a good line on pay equity ..... “But data from the Obama White House’s 2011 annual report show that female staffers there earn a median salary 18 percent lower than that of men.
And nearly four years ago, at the height of the 2008 election season, Scripps Howard syndicated columnist Deroy Murdock wrote that female staffers in Obama’s U.S. Senate office, too, were shortchanged.
‘Obama’s average male employee earned $54,397,’ Murdock determined from online Senate salary records. But the future president’s ‘30 female employees … [earned] $45,152, on average.’
By contrast, 2008 Republican presidential nominee Sen. John McCain paid his female staffers higher average salaries than his male employees at the time, with women earning an average of $55,878 and men taking home $53,936.
Some analysts have framed these disparities as an indication that Obama had fewer women in high-earning positions of authority than McCain did.”
Well, thank Heaven that at least President Obama doesn’t prey on young interns! That’s an age-old form of discrimination against women that Democrats consistently choose to ignore.
Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2012/09/05/democrats-focus-on-equal-pay-issue-while-obama-white-house-pays-women-less/#ixzz25bPllG3N
posted by: GMR | September 5, 2012 3:01pm
If women really earned much less, and CEOs only care about profits, why wouldn’t they just hire women, whom they could pay less?
posted by: Male Matters | September 13, 2012 10:26am
“America’s women still make just 77 cents for every dollar men earn,” DeLauro said.
For political and ideological reasons, DeLauro will ignore reality.
See “Women’s 77 cents to men’s dollar: What it really means”
http://malemattersusa.wordpress.com/2012/07/10/womens-77-cents-to-mens-dollar-what-it-really-means/
Excerpt:
The figures are arrived at by comparing the sexes’ median incomes: women’s median is 77 percent of men’s. In 2009, the median income of full-time, year-round workers was $47,127 for men, compared to $36,278 for women or 77 percent of men’s median. http://tinyurl.com/5pl8or
Median means 50% of workers earn above the figures and 50% below. That means that a lot of female workers in the higher ranges of women’s median make more money than a lot of male workers in the lower ranges of men’s median.