Surprise! Republican Congressmen Pay Male Employees $10,000 More Per Year
LatestYour vagina is an expensive anatomical accessory. In addition to the tampons and gynecologists, over the course of your lifetime, you can expect your vagina to gobble up thousands of dollars worth of possible earnings that you would have made yourself if only you were a man. Unsurprisingly, the pesky pay gap endures even when you work on Capitol Hill, and it double especially endures when you’re working for a Republican.
Analysis by the National Journal shows that women making their way through the series of sphincters that is the US legislative branch can expect to experience a pay gap that’s slightly less than her public sector counterparts — women working for entities that aren’t the US government make, on average 77 cents per dollar men make (this also varies with a woman’s age, education level, and other factors, so calm down, pedants); in Congress, women make 90 cents per dollar a man earns.