The  Democratic Party puts itself out there as being the party fighting for  women's equality. Democrats point to legislation that calls for equal  pay for equal work by women.

Women seem to agree, according to most polls, that the Democratic Party has their interest at heart.

Why  is it then that elected Democratic lawmakers and even the re-election  campaign of President Barack Obama pay their female staffers less than  their male counterparts?

Female  employees of Obama for America earned less on average than male  employees during the months of May and June, according to a Washington  Free Beacon analysis of the campaign’s public filings with the Federal  Election Commission (FEC).

The  Obama reelection campaign’s female employees earned an average of  $6,872 during that period, compared with an average of $7,235 for male  employees. That is a difference of $363, or 5.3 percent.

The annualized pay difference is more than $2,100 per year.

The  difference in the median earnings of male and female workers during May  and June was also about 5 percent. The median male salary for the  period under review was $6,568, compared with $6,280 for female  employees—an annualized difference of more than $1,728.

The  Free Beacon calculated the figures using data from publicly available  FEC filings. After separating employees by gender, the mean and median  figures for each group were calculated using commonly accepted formulas.  A default gender of male was assigned in cases in which gender could  not be determined, though this was only done in six instances.

The pay disparity is consistent with other Free Beacon analyses, which found that female employees of both the White House and Democratic lawmakers were consistently paid less than their male peers.

Women  working for Democratic Senators made about $6,500 (10 percent) less on  average than male staff members in 2011, public records show. Several  prominent Democrats, such as Sens. Patty Murray (D., Wash.), Chuck  Schumer (D., N.Y.), and Dick Durbin (D., Ill.), paid their female  employees more than 20 percent less on average.

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D., Calif.) paid her female staffers almost 30 percent less on average than males staffers in 2011.

The  pay disparity was especially pronounced among employees of the White  House. The median female salary there in 2011 was about $11,000 (18  percent) less than the median male salary.

A  number of prominent Democratic politicians have accused the Republican  Party of actively waging a “war on women,” citing GOP opposition to  legislation that would make it easier for trial lawyers to file class  action lawsuits against employers for alleged pay discrimination.

Experts  told the Free Beacon that the so-called “Paycheck Fairness Act,” which  the Senate failed to advance in June, would have been a significant boon  to the trial lawyer industry, a highly influential Democratic client  group that is the number one source of campaign contributions for all  but five members of the Senate Democratic caucus.

http://freebeacon.com/the-democratic-war-on-women-continues/

From the Cornfield, so is this a case of "Do as I say, not as I do"?