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| Fri, 09-12-2008 - 2:14pm |
Here is an interesting article....
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/09/12/opinion/main4443922.shtml
Obama Should Hold Tongue On Equal Pay
National Review Online: Democrat Pays His Female Staffers Less Equitably Than McCain

Susan
>>One explanation could be that women compose a majority of McCain’s highest-paid aides. Among his top-five best-compensated staffers, three are women. Of his 20-highest-salaried employees, 13 are women. The Republican presidential nominee relies on women - much more than men - for advice at the highest, and thus, best-paid levels. (For a detailed analysis of these figures, click here.)<<
Another is that staffers who switch over to working for the campaign must quit their federal jobs. If McCain brought over senior male staffers to the campaign it leaves him with females in Washington -- in which case he is taking advice from women only on issues in the Senate, and since he isn't around voting there anyway, that is a pretty meaningless claim.
Same with Obama, if he brought senior female staffers over to the campaign they no longer show up on federal payrolls because they aren't being paid by the feds.
The other piece of information we'd need is the candidate pool at the time of hiring. If 35 men and 15 women applied for seven positions and Obama hired four men and three women he is proportionally overhiring women even though there are more men on the payroll.
But I do enjoy how this article is a classic example of using statistics to imply something the stats themselves don't actually say.
and kudos to the writer for "recycled news" as this came out in April.
rose
Guess those staffers aren't his daughter so it doesn't matter.....on ad running in our area is equal pay so that his daughters can make as much as our sons.
seems to me this is not about equal pay but about equal hiring. and yes McCain is to be commended for his reliance on women in his staff.
and let's remember: the National Review is admittedly slanted to the right - even if quoted by CBS.
Bea
A very important factor that the article entirely ignores.
Actually, what's going on here has nothing to do with gender, and everything to do with length