Presidential Campaign - Gender Update

Mikaela says:
Huffington Post has a great article looking at gender in the presidential campaign staffs. They do a great job analyzing power & titles and staff postions. That's all great. Go there for that.

As an m-pyricist, I'm more interested in the big picture. How many folks are where, and how much are they making? In general, what's the class distinction (or as close to that as we can come given just salary information, which for all we know is on top of $90,000 a year "day jobs") among campaign staff?

Based on Huffington Post's data spreadsheet (thank you!), here's what I see:

The first chart gives you a sense of the overall size of each campaign staff. Clinton's got the most folks, and the majority are women (surprise, surprise!). If you look below, however, you see that her highest-paid professional is still a man.Right off, you can see the dems do a better job balancing gender than the repubs.

You can see that even more clearly below, where you can see percentages compared versus number of staff. Thompson & Guiliani are the worst for gender equity among the Republicans, and Big Bill is also looking pretty shabby, which is not too surprising considering his ole boy network and infamous issues with keeping his hands off female staff. Ahem.

Still, Edwards looks even worse. What's that about? Lost all the good women to Clinton's campaign?

Huckabee looks pretty good in the graph below but laughable in the graph above. Seems when you can see your staff sitting around a table -- all of them -- it's easier to maintain a good balance.



Below you can see total jobs for the campaigns, minus a few that Huffington couldn't determine by name what gender they were. There were only a handful of these. As you can see below, we're not really talking that many folks, all told. Turns out Presidential Campaigns are not huge employers and don't drive an economy. Hmmm....
Alright, now let's look at income comparisons. As you see, the majority of folks make less than $20,000, so working for a campaign isn't all that lucrative, and the distribution of salaries isn't that great, male or female. Not too progressive, folks!

At the same time, of those making more than $20,000, more men make more than women. Women are off this chart altogether past $70,000, except for one woman working for Clinton who makes $300,000 or so. That's the highest paid woman, compared to the highest paid man, also working for Clinton, who makes over $1 million. Ouch.
You can see the percentages better here. Kinda dismal for the gals.
Broken down one more way... here' s the proportion of income the men versus the women take home (67% to a measley 33%). That's 2/3 men, 1/3 women. Equal rights, huh? Remember women generally vote in a higher percentage (in 2004, too) than men. Taxation without representation, anyone?
Now I'm really obsessed, but here's the clearest graphic showing the discrepancy of income "earned" by men & women presidential campaign staff. Just how do we stack up? A few pancakes short of a full stomach. Totally queasy now. And yet, we hunger!