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Hillary Clinton spox responds to wage gap in her Senate office

By Ashe Schow

Published March 3, 2015 10:00am ET

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Hillary Clinton spox responds to wage gap in her Senate office — Former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton laughs after people questioned about a presidential run while she speaks to a crowd in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, earlier this year. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Liam Richards) | Liam Richards

During her nearly two terms as a U.S. senator, the median salary for women in Hillary Clinton’s office was much less than the median salary for men.

As first reported by the Washington Free Beacon’s Brent Scher, women in Clinton’s office earned 72 cents to the dollar that men earned. That’s even less than the oft-cited (and highly misleading) 77-cent figure for all working women in the United States.

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