Women hold fewer senior-level positions at the Clinton Foundation and earn less than their male counterparts, according to an analysis by The Weekly Standard.
After it was discovered that the average woman earned on average 72 cents for every dollar the average man earned in Hillary Clinton’s Senate office, her spokesman told the Washington Examiner that it was “ridiculous” to claim discrimination, since women held so many senior-level positions in the office.
But at the Clinton Foundation, the top eight highest-paid positions in 2013 (the latest data available) all belonged to men. Only three of the top 11 belonged to women.
The numbers come from IRS Form 990 filings, which require non-profit organizations to list the compensation of “officers, directors, trustees, key employees, highest compensated employees and independent contractors.” From those filings, The Weekly Standard learned that:
1. Over the past four years for which data are available, women have held fewer and fewer top-paying positions, and,
2. Even when women held a majority of the top-paid positions, on average they earned just 71 percent of what the top-earning men were paid.
In 2010, analysis found, there were five women in top-paid positions and just four men. And yet the average woman out of them earned just 71 cents to the dollar that the average man in this group earned.
In 2011, the ratio switched, and there were now five men in top-paid positions and only four women. The wage gap narrowed that year slightly, with the women making 77 cents to the dollar the men earned.
The wage gap grew considerably in 2012 and 2013, as women held fewer top-paid positions (down to just three) and men gained more. In 2012, the top-paid women earned 65 cents to the dollar the top-paid men earned, and in 2013 the gap widened to 63 cents to the dollar.
An explanation for the disparity, noted byThe Weekly Standard, appears on the Foundation website:
But that still wouldn’t account for the lack of women in high-level positions. And the Standard points out that after reviewing compensation for CGI, it determined that “inclusion of that data in the above analysis would have only served to widen the disparities.” The Standard does note that it did not conduct a detailed analysis combining the two sets of data.
Hillary Clinton continues to travel the country denouncing the gender wage gap, but it’s clear she doesn’t have a leg to stand on when it comes to the wage gap in her own offices.
Update: The Clinton Foundation responded to a Washington Examinerrequest for comment by saying that 64 percent of the foundation’s workforce, globally, is made up of women. The Foundation also assured the Examinerthat women in senior leadership roles, specifically, are, on average, paid more than their male colleagues (reverse wage gap?) and that non-leadership female employees are compensated, on average, at the same rate as male employees. There is no place on the website to confirm this information.
The Foundation also explained that there are 15 women and only 12 men in leadership positions at the organization. This number is achieved if you add up all the men and women listed on the foundation’s website in leadership positions (including the Clintons themselves), but exclude the two men in charge of affiliated entities that are also listed on the leadership pages. If you include them, there are 15 women and 14 men in leadership positions at or affiliated with the Clinton Foundation.
“We take this issue very seriously in our organization, and our programs around the world are focused on the importance of empowering women, including an initiative dedicated solely to the advancement and full participation of women and girls,” an official at the Foundation said.
