>>>IMHO, two totally different situations. In Obama's case, it's more an issue of taking a stance but doing the opposite. With Palin, it's typical political cleaning house and bringing those whom you trust into the fold.
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>>>Neither are good (except that what Palin did is expected and standard practice but I don't see any corruption there or professing one thing and doing another), but this issue with taking a public stance on equal pay and rights for women but not practicing it concerns me more.
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>>You noted, of course, that the article doesn't mention whether those are all full-time staff or what their job titles and descriptions are, right? That article is insufficient to answer the question of whether he's giving equal pay for equal work.
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>>Tamar
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>Of course position and responsibility is everything:
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>http://www.scrippsnews.com/node/36234

Which seems to indicate that, at the time the numbers were reported, Obama's staff had more men in senior positions than women, which accounts for the disparity.

Tamar