United States Senator Elizabeth Warren from Massachusetts is an outspoken Democrat and supposed champion of women’s rights. In a speech last year on the Senate floor about equal pay, Warren said:
“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,” Warren said. “But that’s not what this is about. Not even close.”
She also informed her social media followers of her disdain and disillusionment with the inequality suffered by women.
#EqualPayDay isn’t a national day of celebration. It’s a national day of embarrassment.
— Elizabeth Warren (@SenWarren) April 12, 2016
Which makes the report that Warren has a substantial larger than average pay gap between her male and female employees on her staff.
The gender pay gap in Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s (D., Mass.) office is nearly 10 percent wider than the national average, meaning women in the Massachusetts Democrat’s office will have to wait longer than most women across the country to recognize Equal Pay Day.
Equal Pay Day, created two decades ago by the National Committee on Pay Equity, is scheduled by using the Census Bureau annual unadjusted gender pay gap to determine how far into the next year women would have to work to match annual earnings of men. Last year’s figures, showing that women earned 79.6 percent of what men earned, put Equal Pay Day on Tuesday April 4, more than three months into the calendar year.
However, women working for Warren were paid just 71 cents for every dollar paid to men during the 2016 fiscal year, according to a Washington Free Beacon analysis.
The median annual earnings for women staffers, $52,750, was more than $20,000 less than 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.
Wow, it’s almost like liberal politicians don’t actually care about the people working for them, they just want to get the brownie points with their constituents. What does that tell you about the other promises and morals they so proudly espouse? Maybe those are all just talk too?
Yeah, me thinks the lady doth protest too much.
(Source: Western Journalism)