That may be true, but this writer doesn't prove it — he conflates equal pay for equal jobs with adding up all the salaries, dividing them by gender and checking the percentage difference.

You might as well count up the money paid to black staffers and white staffers, divide them by race, and then use the percentage difference as "proof" Hillary (or Trump, or whomever) "pays blacks more" or "pays whites more."

The only real comparison for an equal pay gender gap would be: Job A pays $50K to a male staffer, while the identical Job A pays only $45K to a female staffer with the same experience.

Moreover, the data comes from two months of salary analysis, which is hardly a representative sample of how much any employer pays men and women over time.

It's not complicated, and since Mr. Perry is an economist, I suspect he knows the difference. There's plenty to hang around Hillary's neck without this tissue-thin attempt at analysis.

The problem Kevin is that is the exact same analysis Hillary uses to come up with a gender wage gap in the first place. If she is going to campaign over something, label it an issue that needs to be fixed, maybe, just maybe, she should practice what she preaches.

Ben gets it exactly right.

This article explains the "pay gap" neatly.

"...I want you to try something: Name five impressive things about yourself. Write them down or just shout them out loud to the room. But here's the catch -- you're not allowed to list anything you are (i.e., I'm a nice guy, I'm honest), but instead can only list things that you do (i.e., I just won a national chess tournament, I make the best chili in Massachusetts). If you found that difficult, well, this is for you..."

If "what you do" doesn't have anything to do with making your employer money, then, sorry. Male or female, you're worth less to them.

And the State can't fix that. YOU have to.

I'll put a slight twist on that. Tell me what you've done, not what you do. Effort is not the same as production, and you get paid for production. I'll pay you for a house, not carpenter work hours.

@Radwaste: What an article! Everyone on the planet needs to read that, most especially the teenagers and 20-somethings. And I include my former self in that group, because it took me something like 15 years to figure that out on my own.

Of course, the people who need it the worst will do exactly as he predicts in his last paragraphs - find a way to make their sucky lives someone else's fault. Looking at the comments is enough to show that.

Kevin hits on the irony: There might be rational, non-discriminatory reasons for the gap. But Hillary's own position on the issue does not allow for such subtlety -- if there's a man and a woman who work in the same place, and the woman makes less than the man, then, in her view, that's prima facie discrimination. It's like a tweet from Johnathan Chait yesterday that Reynolds repeated: To leftists, if racism is a possible explanation for something, then that must be the explanation -- no other possibility need be considered.

your life is your job

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That may be true, but this writer doesn't prove it — he conflates equal pay for equal jobs with adding up all the salaries, dividing them by gender and checking the percentage difference

You know those studies that show that women earn $0.7something per dollar a man makes? They do the same damn thing.

For instance, say a given man is working 80 hours a week, and a given woman is working 35 hours a week. In those studies, they are treated the same. But he makes much more, so sexism.

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I read that a while back Rad and it is right. Sadly Random is completely right too.

I have a former friend who worked at Blockbuster. They had a rule you can't check your own videos in and out. First two times he got caught they gave him a warning. Time number three they fired him. He was shocked. Actions have consequences? Who knew? Most of his friends commiserated with him, saying things like 'Yeah, that's bullshit man.' I just kept my mouth shut because all I could think was 'You dumbass.' It's no secret around here that I'm pretty religious. This same guy was at my bachelor party. He couldn't resist going on about how Hitler was my pope. Afterwards he is shocked I don't want to hang out. Actions have consequences? Who knew?

On a lighter side thedevilspanties.com has a good comic for this topic.

Q:"How have your experiences as a female comic artist differed from male artists?"
A:"I don't know. I've never been a male comic artist."

So Hillary is a hypocrite. She is, after all, both Hillary and a Clinton; so it is nothing new.

But, Yea! good for pointing it out.

Now, had she been a Republican doing this it would have been on the evening news for a couple of weeks (until an even bigger story knock it out).

If Clinton is paying women on her campaign staff 87.6 cents for every dollar she pays men, that's a lot better than she paid women on her senate campaign. Wasn't that more in the range of 72 cents for every dollar she paid men?