Say it ain’t so: Nancy Pelosi’s female staffers paid less than men?

◼ NO EQUAL PAY FOR NANCY, PELOSI DUCKS QUESTIONS ON SENATE PAY DISPARITY WHILE PAYING WOMEN ON HER STAFF LESS THAN MEN - Andrew Stiles/Washington Free Beacon

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D., Calif.) refused to answer questions about Senate Democrats paying their female staff members less than male staffers on Thursday. She may have ducked the question because a Washington Free Beacon analysis shows she pays the women on her staff $26,606 less per year on average.

According to publicly available salary data at the website Legistorm, Pelosi’s female employees earned an average annual salary of $96,394 in fiscal year 2011. Male employees earned $123,000 on average, a difference of 27.6 percent.

The gap is even larger if calculated using the median salaries for men and women. For Pelosi’s female employees, the median annual salary was $93,320 in 2011, compared to $130,455 for male employees—a difference of $37,135, or 40 percent.

...Daily Caller reporter Michelle Fields on Thursday asked Pelosi about the results of a Free Beacon analysis published last week, which found that Senate Democrats paid their female staffers about $6,500 less on average than male staffers.

“You’ll have to go to the Senate side for that,” Pelosi said. “When I was speaker, I was [the] highest paid person on Capitol Hill and the women took great joy in that.”

“I can’t speak to what the Senate—needless to say, it’s another world,” she added.

◼ Is it possible that the females on Nancy Pelosi’s staff — the same ones who help Nancy craft all her Republican “war on women” nonsense — are paid less than their male counterparts? - Michelle Malkin

In addition to the women on Pelosi’s staff earning less than men, the White House reportedly pays women less than men, there are 766,000 more women unemployed today than when Barack Obama took office, and both Pelosi and Obama oppose banning sex selection abortions.

We now return you to your regularly scheduled Republican war on women…