Hillary Clinton “emerged from her undisclosed location Tuesday to reportedly earn $300,000 speaking to a group in Silicon Valley, where she couldn’t resist praising actress Patricia Arquette’s Oscar night exhortation for equal pay. It’s especially staggering in light of reporting out the day before showing that Clinton paid women less than men while serving in the U.S. Senate.” The Hill,
“It’s one thing when Hollywood stars dripping in couture get up on their soapboxes and make political statements at awards ceremonies, but quite another when an all but announced presidential candidate earning more for a speech than most Americans will in several years trumpets wage equality, when it already exists and she knows it…
Obama and Clinton know men and women are, in not all but most cases, being paid the same wages for equal work. The gap is produced by the two sexes performing different jobs, with differing amounts of education and experience and for different total hours. Research from Pew shows the wage gap grows smaller as each new generation enters the workforce, but the gap expands in mid-career, when women are likely to take time off or to work fewer hours in order to care for children. It has been against the law to pay men more than women for the same work since 1963, when John F. Kennedy signed the Equal Pay Act into law.”
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