Washington Free Beacon: Women Made 18% Less Than Men In Obama White House In 2011
The Washington Free Beacon reported on Wednesday that women who work in the Obama White House made 18 percent less than their male colleagues in 2011.
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An annual report released by the Obama administration shows that women who work in the White House made a median salary of $60,000, compared to men who made a median income of $71,000.
“It is not known whether any female employees at the White House have filed lawsuits under the Ledbetter Act,” wrote the WFB‘s Andrew Stiles.
In Pulitzer Prize-winning author Ron Suskind’s 2011 book “Confidence Men: Wall Street, Washington, and the Education of a President,” he chronicles the grievances of the early Obama administration’s female staff and cabinet members.
Harvard University professor and former economic advisor Christina Roemer told Suskind that “she felt like a piece of meat,” after being excluded from a meeting with the president attended by fellow economic advisor and Harvard University professor Larry Summers.
Former White House Communications Director Anita Dunn told Suskind, “I remember once I told Valerie [Jarrett] that, I said if it weren’t for the president, this place would be in court for a hostile workplace, because it actually fit all of the classic legal requirements for a genuinely hostile workplace to women.”
Dee Dee Myers, former Clinton administration press secretary and present consultant at the Glover Park Group, told the New York Times in 2009 “women are Obama’s base, and they don’t seem to have enough people who look like the base inside of their own inner circle.”
Democratic politicians have recently accused the Republican party of waging a “war on women,” and that message appears to be taking hold in the electorate as the general presidential election approaches. A USA Today/Gallup poll from March 20 – 26 showed President Obama leading former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney by 54 to 36 percent among female voters.
