A Sept. 18 CNSNews.com article by Fred Lucas asserts that Barack Obama “pays his own female Senate staffers, on average, only 78 percent of what he pays male staffers,” suggesting that this conflicts with Obama’s stance supporting equal pay for women.
As we pointed out the last time Lucas made this claim, that’s a false conflation of issues. Lucas provides no evidence that women in Obama’s office are being paid less than men with the same amount of experience doing the same job — which is what the issue of pay equity is all about. (Pandagon weighs on on the issue as well.)