christiefan915
Catalyst
Remember when people complained that Hillary was paying her female employees less than the males? Guess Trump took a page from her playbook.
Donald Trump’s campaign staff is 75 percent male, and many of those men get paid far more than women of similar seniority. In an analysis of Trump’s May financial disclosure papers, the Huffington Post reported Wednesday that the highest-paid men on Trump’s campaign made between $2,014 and $12,300 more than the highest-paid women—more than twice as much, in some cases—in the month of April.
This isn’t the first time we’ve heard of the pay disparities in the Trump ranks. Earlier this year, former Trump Iowa field organizer Elizabeth Mae Davidson filed a gender discrimination complaint against the campaign, alleging that her male counterparts were paid more and given more leadership and speaking opportunities. She also accused Trump of sexually harassing her and another young colleague.
Davidson made $2,000 a month on the Trump campaign; some men in her same position made $3,500 to $4,000 a month. She said her superiors kept her in a lower pay grade by classifying her as a part-time employee because she worked as a paralegal on the side—but one of her male equals who also kept a second job made the higher pay level.
Davidson was a relatively low-ranking employee, but the new Trump numbers reveal a similarly wide gap at the highest levels of the campaign. The Huffington Post reports:
Donald Trump’s campaign staff is 75 percent male, and many of those men get paid far more than women of similar seniority. In an analysis of Trump’s May financial disclosure papers, the Huffington Post reported Wednesday that the highest-paid men on Trump’s campaign made between $2,014 and $12,300 more than the highest-paid women—more than twice as much, in some cases—in the month of April.
This isn’t the first time we’ve heard of the pay disparities in the Trump ranks. Earlier this year, former Trump Iowa field organizer Elizabeth Mae Davidson filed a gender discrimination complaint against the campaign, alleging that her male counterparts were paid more and given more leadership and speaking opportunities. She also accused Trump of sexually harassing her and another young colleague.
Davidson made $2,000 a month on the Trump campaign; some men in her same position made $3,500 to $4,000 a month. She said her superiors kept her in a lower pay grade by classifying her as a part-time employee because she worked as a paralegal on the side—but one of her male equals who also kept a second job made the higher pay level.
Davidson was a relatively low-ranking employee, but the new Trump numbers reveal a similarly wide gap at the highest levels of the campaign. The Huffington Post reports:
Campaign manager Corey Lewandowski, deputy campaign manager Michael Glassner, chief policy adviser Sam Clovis, and director of social media Dan Scavino were each paid between $12,500 and $20,000 for April and May. The two female senior staffers—communications director Hope Hicks and national spokeswoman Katrina Pierson—were paid $7,700 and $10,486, respectively.
http://www.slate.com/blogs/xx_facto...e_employees_much_less_than_its_male_ones.html
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