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Report: Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s Female Staffers Made $20,000 Less than Male Staffers

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Report: Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s Female Staffers Made $20,000 Less than Male Staffers

Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s (D-MA) female staffers made more than $20,000 less than their male counterparts last year, according to a new report.

The median annual salary for male staffers in Warren’s office amounted to $73,750 in 2016, while female staffers brought in a median of $52,750 in 2016 — a pay gap amounting to more than $20,000, the Washington Free Beacon reported.

Female staff in Warren’s office make 71 cents for every dollar that their male counterparts make.

The top five highest paid staffers in Warren’s office were all men who earned between $113,750 and $156,000, while only one woman earned a salary of more than $100,000 in 2016.

Warren frequently champions equal pay for women on both her personal and Senate Twitter accounts.

“I cannot believe I have to give another speech fighting for equal pay for equal work for women,” she wrote in one of her tweets from her Senate account.

Warren is not the only politician who touts equal pay and then pays women less than men.

Former Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton paid women about $15,000 less than men as a senator , then paid women $16,000 less than men as secretary of state , and paid women $7,000 less as a presidential candidate . Campaign staffers noted her campaign’s tendency to pay men more than women and saw it as a vulnerability in the election.

Women working at the Obama White House also regularly earned less than men .

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Let us not forget that Warren has also built a small fortune for herself. According to the Legal Insurrection owned and operated site ElizabethWarrenWiki , Senator Warren had a net worth of $14.5 million by the end of 2011.

She made hundreds of thousands of dollars teaching at Harvard, despite the fact that she now claims to care about debt laden college students.

Here’s another tidbit worth mentioning:

Stephen Helfer, a former library assistant at Harvard Law School, in a letter to the Cambridge Wicked Local, asserted that Warren failed to support library staff who faced layoffs in 2009:

Cambridge —Senator-elect Elizabeth Warren says she is a “fighter” for moderate-income Americans (“Warren wins U.S. Senate seat,” CambridgeChronicle, Nov. 8). When given the opportunity to stand up for low-income employees at Harvard three years ago, however, where she has been a tenured professor for almost 20 years, Warren did nothing of the sort.

In 2009, at the depth of the recession, Harvard’s endowment, because of its high-risk investing, decreased 30 percent. The university proclaimed it needed to cut costs and warned low-paid staff of layoffs. Many on campus asked the administration to follow the example of institutions like Beth Israel hospital and request faculty and other high earners to take pay reductions as a means to save jobs.

Several employees at Harvard Law School circulated a petition asking all law school members, who could, to make such a sacrifice. Warren and her husband (also a Harvard Law professor) have combined yearly incomes in the $1 million range and she earned another $200,000 for work she called “part-time” in Washington. During this uneasy period when across campus staff feared for their livelihoods, Warren remained silent.