Former Secretary of State and potential 2016 presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has been talking a good game for many years about how equality for girls and women remains “the great unfinished business of the 21st century.” Clinton has also repeatedly discussed pay equity and how women are earning less than their male counterparts in the same position.
This topic has been erroneously portrayed and nauseously discussed, and those who constantly purport this myth are just affluent hypocrites (SEE: 9 statistics Patricia Arquette needs to read on gender wage gap myth). Clinton is a great example of this.
According to a new chart published by the American Enterprise Institute, Clinton has been a key player in this so-called war on women as she paid females 72 cents for each dollar paid to males. If she believed in pay equity then how come she didn’t pay men and women on her Senate staff the same salary?
She even tweeted a pay equity statistic that is fallacious at best.
20 years ago, women made 72 cents on the dollar to men. Today it’s still just 77 cents. More work to do. #EqualPay #NoCeilings
— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) April 9, 2014
Clinton’s supporters defended the former Senator’s dereliction by alluding to the fact that she has chaired committees and sponsored legislation that tackles pay equity. However, there’s a difference between legislation and actually abiding by this stance. It’s akin to former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and the minimum wage – she supports forcing other businesses to pay the minimum wage but refused to pay her entry-level staffers a minimum wage.
The same pay equity trend can be seen in the White House, occupied by a president who regularly pontificates on pay equity but pays women on his team less than men. Oh well, do as I say not as I do.
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