The following article by Sofia Lotto Persio of Newsweek was posted on the National Memo website July 5, 2017:
Women working in U.S. President Donald Trump’s White House earn less than men on average, according to new data.The White House released salary information of its 377 staffers on June 30 in line with a Congressional rule dating back to 1995. The data revealed that the White House has a wider gender pay gap than the national average.
The average gender pay gap in the U.S. in 2016 was 18.1 percent, meaning that for every dollar earned by a man, a woman earned 81.9 cents, according to data from the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). Continue reading “White House Women Face Bigger Gender Pay Gap Than The National Average”