WAR ON WOMEN: Hillary Clinton adviser: ‘Do we have a pay equity problem?’
Despite Hillary Clinton’s constant demands for equal pay for women, a member of her staff privately wondered if the campaign had “a pay equity problem.”
Ann O’Leary, Clinton’s senior policy adviser, was sent a tweet from then-presidential candidate Carly Fiorina, who was hitting the Democratic candidate on equal pay. Fiorina had linked to an article in the Washington Free Beacon about how her campaign paid women more than men, while Clinton’s campaign paid women less.
“We are going to keep getting hit on this one … unless we can more strongly rebut it,” O’Leary wrote in an Aug. 26, 2015, email. “Can we have an independent analysis showing that we have pay equity between men and women on the campaign? Do we have a pay equity problem?”
The email was illegally obtained by WikiLeaks and released Friday, and is not the first time Team Clinton worried about the candidate’s pay equity.
In February 2015, one day after the Free Beacon published an article about Clinton paying women less than men in her Senate office, Democratic operative Ian Mandel emailed other staffers research pertaining to the gender pay gap at the Clinton Foundation.
“Guys — Given the story yesterday about pay equity at the State Department, I wanted to flag something that came out of our research on pay equity at the Foundation,” Mandel wrote. “There are huge discrepancies, and it wouldn’t surprise me if [the Free Beacon] went here next.”
That research showed that just three out of 11 of the highest-paid staffers at the foundation were women. It also found the highest-paid male staffer made, on average, $294,157.50, while the highest-paid female staffer made, on average, $181,576.66 — a difference of $112,000.
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