There’s no question that the pay gap costs women and their families thousands of dollars every single year. It devalues the work women do — from minimum-wage workers to chief executives to the best athletes in the world. And it holds our economy back.
And yet we know that not everyone is convinced. There’s still a lot of misinformation out there — so let’s dispel the myths.
On Equal Pay Day and the anniversary of her entry into the 2016 presidential race, Hillary Clinton participated in a roundtable on the pay gap. Hosted by Glassdoor and held in Manhattan, the discussion ranged from reasons why women are not paid equally for equal work, data on the gap, and strategies for moving the issue forward into every workplace.
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton speaks during a Glassdoor Pay Equality Roundtable, Tuesday, April 12, 2016, in New York. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)
This tweet crosses the ‘t’ in thinking about this topic. Employers who worry about how much it would cost them to pay women equally are thinking subtraction and division. The effect is addition and even multiplication.
A report on Clinton’s office compensation earlier this year quickly became a conservative talking point. Internal data shows she paid a dollar for dollar during her Senate tenure across all offices.
Hillary Clinton paid women and men equally as a U.S. senator, according to a review of internal salary information that shows full-time female and male staffers from her Senate office and three political committees making a dollar for dollar.
Clinton, who has been a longtime advocate of equal pay for women, is expected to launch a second presidential bid on Sunday — and has, along with senior aides, spent recent weeks building her campaign staff, to be headquartered in Brooklyn.
The compensation data, obtained by BuzzFeed News, spans from 2002 to 2008 — a period covering every full fiscal year of Clinton’s tenure as the junior senator from New York.
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