The idea that women earn less than males is one of the left’s favorite talking points, and President Joe Biden has frequently decried the injustices of this “pay gap.” However, an examination of his White House salary reveals that Biden is equally responsible for this purported sexism as anybody else.
Biden’s “progressive” views are at odds with the gender pay discrepancy that the Wall Street Journal uncovered in the White House. It was discovered that worker wages varied by 20%.
Gender Pay Gap Exposed: According to AEI professor Mark Perry’s Journal investigation, women in Biden’s White House make barely 80 cents on the dollar compared to their male counterparts. The battle for equitable pay rages on.
“The median man on Mr. Biden’s staff earns $105,000, while the median woman gets only $84,000,” The editorial board of the Journal wrote.
Unveiling the “composition effect,” Joe Biden’s team’s compensation discrepancy between men and women has a good explanation.
“Among 269 female and 179 male White House staff in Mr. Perry’s spreadsheet, there are more women in lower-paid roles such as staff assistant,” Journal made a note. Therefore, despite the fact that most men have more experience and greater status, women have entered the workforce at a higher rate than males. Therefore, it stands to reason that males will be paid more.
These key data, which progressives ignore, debunk the notion that there is a “pay gap” in America today.
In fact, the Council of Economic Advisers stated in a June post on the White House’s official website : “among all wage and salary workers usually working full-time, a woman made just 83 cents for every dollar paid to a man.”
The Journal categorically debunked Biden’s assertions and exposed his hypocrisy.
“Wait, if Mr. Biden pays only 80 cents on the dollar, does that mean his White House is three percentage points more structurally sexist than the labor market writ large? We’d love to hear his reply to that one, since Mr. Biden’s rhetoric about ‘equity’ leaves no room for nuance,” the outlet wrote.
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According to The Journal, liberals enjoy adopting a 1-to-1 strategy without accounting for factors like education, work experience, or market conditions. They then assert that women earn less due of “sexism” in society by using these erroneous figures. For instance, the White House Council of Economic Advisers said in the same article that “women with post-secondary degrees face a larger penalty than the overall pay gap.”
The Journal has an answer to that assertion.
“The range in graduate education is massive, from a master’s in social work, to a medical or law degree, to a Ph.D in bioengineering. Lumping all these people together and then cutting the data set by gender is not a way to understand what’s truly going on in the world,” the Journal wrote.
In a dig at both feminists and Joe Biden, the newspaper claimed that “if it were,” “feminists should be running Mr. Biden out of town on a rail.”
Biden is praised for his resolute position on the salary gap.
Biden stated he was “working to change” the wage disparity during a March ceremony at the White House to commemorate “national equal pay day,” according to Fox News.
“I call upon all Americans to recognize the full value of women’s skills and their significant contributions to the labor force, acknowledge the injustice of wage inequality and join efforts to achieve equal pay,” Biden said.
In another instance, Biden asserted in a tweet on March 14 that “Women lose thousands of dollars each year, and hundreds of thousands over a lifetime, because of gender and racial wage gaps. I’m committed to building an economy where my daughters have the same rights and opportunities as my sons.”
Despite all that posturing, efforts to close the salary disparity in his own offices were unsuccessful.
Finding the White House pay gap: Perry’s investigation finds wage differences for the president’s staff. Surprisingly, even president Barack Obama, who prides himself on being progressive, had a sizable salary disparity in 2016. Surprisingly, female employees were paid about 11% less than male employees.
In an eye-opening study, the researcher brought attention to a striking fact: female employees working for Obama had to put in an additional 30 days of labor the next year just to make the same amount of money in a single year as their male colleagues.
Perry couldn’t help but note that Trump never boasted about being a fervent supporter of complete pay equality after learning that even he had a wage disparity.
The issue is that these Democrats suddenly appear in power and make their customary progressive declarations about supporting equal pay for women, but they never appear to make any serious effort to “correct” this heinous sin in their own workplaces. Everything about it screams hypocrisy from Democrats.
