The White House recently released its annual report to Congress on White House Office staff which included their yearly salaries. An analysis of the report conducted by Mark Perry, first reported in the Wall Street Journal, revealed that women working for the White House earned 80 cents for every $1 paid to men on average, and escalated the conversation around the concept of the gender pay gap around the U.S.

The gender wage gap, as defined by the U.S. Department of Labor, is a calculation based on “earnings data for women and men who work full-time, year-round in order to control for differences in work hours and experience”. However, some describe the phenomenon as a more nuanced subject. READ MORE