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Article: Pay Disparity Continues, Study Says; Wright Is Urged To Crack the Whip
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- The Washington Post
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- August 5, 1988
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Rep. Lynn M. Martin (R-Ill.), leading a slow-moving battle to
give women and minorities the same rights in Congress that Congress
has imposed on the rest of the nation, yesterday released her second
survey of the pay disparity between men and women on House committee
staffs.
Guess what: Not much has changed since 1985. Most of the
high-paid positions are filled by men; the lower-paid positions are
occupied mainly by women.
The figures: 72 percent of men on House committees make more than
$40,000, but 69 percent of women make less than that. At the lower
end of the pay scale, 79 percent of women make less than $20,000,
while 21 percent of men make less than that.
"These are not kingdoms," ...