Bad news for Hillary: Women CEOs make more than men
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'What happens when two cherished Democratic wedge issues, the War on Women and income inequality, collide? Hillary Clinton is about to find out.
Just prior to her campaign unveiling, Clinton attempted to demonstrate her progressive bona fides by paying lip service to the left’s cause de jour; the scourge of “income inequality,” otherwise known as the disparity of outcomes that has been a feature of human existence since our ancestors climbed down from the canopy.
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But Clinton’s attempt to offer the left a panacea in the form of good, old-fashioned Marxism has encountered an unexpected obstacle: Victory. It seems as though the liberal crusade to secure equal pay, or even better pay, for women has borne fruit. At least, it has for the very highest income brackets.
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"So far, 21 of the 22 current female CEOs in the Standard & Poor’s 500 have reported their latest compensation, including Yahoo (YHOO) CEO Marissa Mayer, defense contractor Lockheed Martin’s (LMT) Marillyn Hewson and CEO Carol Meyrowitz of retailer TJX (TJX), and they were paid an average of $18.8 million during their latest fiscal years, according to a USA TODAY analysis of data from S&P Capital IQ and Bespoke Investment Group. That far exceeds the average $12.7 million paid to the 455 current male CEOs in the S&P 500 that have reported compensation data for the same time period.
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