IT SEEMS OBAMA’S WAR ON WOMEN EXTENDS INTO THE FEDERAL WORKPLACE AS WELL…

 

And here we have a bit more of the hypocrisy that our ‘Dear Beloved Leader’, Barry "Almighty’ has become quite well-known for. As we all know, Barry has become quite adept at talking out of both sides of his very big mouth. And yet another fine example of this comes where out of one side he says something like, "Women are still the ones that are carrying the greatest burden when it comes to trying to balance family and work," and states that he is now planning something called a "White House Summit on Working Families" which is to take place this summer. Yup, another little commission that is more about putting on a show that it is about finding potential solutions to existing problems.

Now there is little doubt that what Barry is preparing to do here, as we run up to the November elections, is to cast as many stones in the direction of the private sector as he can. But during the time that Barry has been in office, and this is according to data from the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), the percentage of women in the civilian federal work force has been shrinking. Before Barry took office, it was already smaller than the percentage in the overall national civilian labor force. Under Barry, it has gotten even smaller. So as Barry seeks out ways to attack the private sector, it would seem that the federal government is the one with the bigger problem when it comes to women in its work force.

You see, OPM maintains a database called FedScope that contains historical information going back to 1998 on much of the federal civilian labor force, but does exclude, for example, the Judiciary, the White House, the Office of the Vice President, several intelligence agencies and the legislative staff of Congress. And according to this database, about 44.4 percent of civilian federal workers were female in 1998. In 2013, only about 43.5 percent were female, and that, oddly enough, is the lowest percentage in the sixteen years available. In 1998, nationwide, about 46.3 percent of the civilian labor force was female, and in 2013 about 46.8 percent of the nationwide civilian labor force was female.

Meanwhile, the female share of the federal government's civilian federal labor force peaked in 2000. That year there were 1,762,559 civilian federal workers covered by the OPM database. Men accounted for 969,255 or about 55 percent; women accounted for 793,288 or about 45 percent. In fiscal 2007 and 2008, the female share of the federal civilian labor force was trending very slightly upward, rising from about 44.2 percent in 2006 to about 44.4 percent in 2008. In fiscal 2009, the year Barry was inaugurated, the female share of the federal civilian workforce started trending slightly downward. In 2009, it was about 44.2 percent. By 2013, it had dropped to its 16-year recorded low of 43.5 percent.

In a report released last year, "Common Characteristics of the Government 2012," OPM published a table listing the gender composition of a subset of the federal civilian labor force it calls "non-seasonal full-time permanent" employees. This group, according to OPM, "includes all employees working a 40-hour work week year round with no absolute end date." The female share in this group was even smaller than female share in the overall civilian federal workforce. In fiscal 2008, the year before Barry took office, there were 1,673,249 non-seasonal full-time permanent federal workers. Of these, 13 had an unspecified gender, 947,808 or about 56.6 percent were male, and 725,428 or about 43.4 percent were female.

In 2012, and again this would be according to the OPM, there were 1,850,311 non-seasonal full-time permanent federal workers. Of these 1,060,226 or about 57.3 percent were male, and 790,085 or 42.7 percent were female. That is 4.2 points lower than the approximately 46.9 percent female share of the national civilian labor force in 2012. Now something else to take notice of here is the fact that the OPM data also indicated that women have a larger share of lower-paying jobs in the federal workforce. Now, imagine that. After all of the harping by Barry against those in the private sector, it turns out that women in the federal workforce are worse off in terms of equal pay.

And in 2013, among federal workers whose salary level was between $30,000 and $39,999, approximately 51.9 percent were female and 48.1 percent were male. Among federal workers whose salary level was between $40,000 and $49,999, approximately 51 percent were male and 49 percent were female. But among federal workers whose salary level was between $100,000 and $109,999, about 60 percent were male and 40 percent were female. And among federal workers who earned $180,000 and above, about 68 percent were male and 32 percent were female. So here we see further prove of Barry continuing, and rather clandestine war that he is perpetrating against women.

If Barry and his cadre of hypocritical Democrats are going to insist upon complaining about how it is that women in the private sector continue to be on the short end of the stick, it might be a good idea for them to first take a look to see how women seem to be faring in the federal workforce. And Barry might then want to get his own house in order before he goes around accusing those out in the private sector who seem to be doing a much better job than the federal government when it comes to fairness in pay. But as is usually the case with Barry specifically, and Democrats in general, facts must never allowed to get in the way of what’s seen as being good propaganda around election time.