The Washington Post has an exposé on gender equality under Trump that’s nicely summarized with this graph:
![Bar graph: “White House gender pay gap surges under Trump”, revealing a “[p]ercent difference between male and female White House staffer salaries” that averaged around 11–15% 2003—2008 (under Bush), 10—11% 2009—2016 (under Obama), and 37% in 2017 (under Trump) (source: Mark Perry, AEI; Wonkblog analysis)](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXAcEJa9jziXjACO1lBsntc1iIx4E5raykwKHyXk53ClhxA68wAFU04cCZvBt6ZODOQX05_ykf0xwOuBfeapOuOdiXrja_HVUjUnHCQ6OqBFLCRsTV3YTCpWQx2RYf-GPOKuOWBoh-tlFd/s650/White_House_wage_gap.png "Bar graph: “White House gender pay gap surges under Trump”, revealing a “[p]ercent difference between male and female White House staffer salaries” that averaged around 11–15% 2003—2008 (under Bush), 10—11% 2009—2016 (under Obama), and 37% in 2017 (under Trump) (source: Mark Perry, AEI; Wonkblog analysis)")
Also:
Perry notes that the highest-paid staffers in the Trump White House are primarily men: Nearly 74 percent of the top 23 staffers are male. By contrast, in the Obama White House of 2015 only 52 percent of the highest-paid staffers were men.
This is from a study done by the American Enterprise Institute, a think tank that’s usually so far-Right it almost circumnavigates the globe to become left again.
If this is how the women who work in Trump’s own house are treated, I wonder how that bodes for the rest of the country.
(via @fark)
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