War on Women Statistics from NFRW President Rae Chornenky

Rae Chornenky, President of the National Federation of Republican Women, (NFRW), gave a speech at the fall convention of the Colorado Federation of Republican Women in which she stated evidence from many different sources that there really does seem to be a War on Women. Read the statistics below and decide for yourself, if you are a women or are related to a woman, which party is on your side and which is fighting against you.

SPEECH STATISTICS

  • The Federal Bureau of Labor Statistics announced some time ago that 92 percent of jobs lost since Obama took office were women’s jobs.Job recovery for women has not only started later than that of men, but the rate has been slower.
  • Young women have fared even worse under Obama.Their unemployment rate has risen from 12.5 percent to 14.4 percent.
  • The poverty rate among women has skyrocketed to the highest level in 17 years.
  • The extreme poverty rate (income below half of the federal poverty line) is the highest rate ever recorded among women.
  • More than 40 percent of single mothers live in poverty.
  • With more than half of poor children living in female-headed households in 2010, the child poverty rate jumped to 22 percent.
  • The majority of older women in America are unable to cover their basic living expenses and the percentage of those in distress is 50 percent higher than that of men.Three out of five women over the age of 65 have incomes that can’t pay for their basic daily needs.
  • In the Obama White House, in figures released for 2011, the median salary for female employees on the White House staff is 18 percent less than that of their male counterparts.
  • The Obama campaign’s recent filings with the Federal Election Commission (FEC) revealed it paid women more than 5 percent less than men during the months of May and June.
  • Female employees of the Democratic National Committee (DNC) earn significantly less than their male counterparts.A review of salary data filed with the FEC reveals that the DNC paid female staff members $500 less on average than male staffers in July 2012.
  • More than a dozen Democratic Senators paid their female staff members at least 20 percent less than male staffers during 2011.
  • House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi paid her female staff members almost 30 percent less than male staffers in 2011.