Exactly! After twenty some years working in a male-dominated field I see this sort of thing happening all the time. The excuse is often “Well there aren’t as many qualified women applying” but that’s BS. They are passing up on women because they are judging them before they even have a chance to prove themselves…

Honestly, I don’t think that they do..

“Because men and sometimes women will tell you “Women can’t program/politics/etc” so you have to basically shut them down by proving yourself ten times over and it DOES NOT END”

Except, if these women are so valued, why aren’t they in the top 10? Is it because 10 men are more important/valued by Sanders?

Yep, that’s exactly how tech works a lot of the time. But that’s bullshit. They’ll often say “but there are no qualified women!”. Speaking as a qualified woman who even on raw qualifications can compete with the best of men that’s complete and utter bullshit. They’ll peg it as “personality fit” even if you’re twice as…

Have to say that I’m really, really disappointed in the Sanders campaign for its lack of self-awareness while filling the senior positions entirely with men.

That’s a ridiculous argument. You don’t just hire any woman especially one you wouldn’t respect in a highly influential position of your campaign. One that can determine whether or not you sink or swim. You can definitely hire an intern or two that’s a woman or a minority if you want to fill a diversity quota though.…

Oh, I love this new tactic of you dudes when we bring up things like pay equity: “You should be happy to have jobs at all.” No, giving teenagers paid entry level positions in NO WAY makes up for the fact that he clearly values male staffers more when it comes to the top paid slots.

I love how it can be assumed that because a campaign has so many women it MUST BE to “give off an impression of equity”. It couldn’t possibly be because she has a network that includes a lot of women, seeing as she’s been in such a male dominated landscape for so long. And it must be pandering, and not that she…

So you’re telling me she has so many highly paid women staffers so this article could make it public to make her look good. You mean to say that all these women directly working her campaign in important positions of power that directly influence her campaign’s success to a very high degree that try to get her elected…

It’s almost like *gasp* she actually means the shit she says in regards to gender equality and wants to promote it.

Yeah—his staff was also 90 percent white until the media called him on it and he went on a hiring spree (compared to Clinton, who has had a staff that was in between 30-35 percent POC from the beginning).

EXACTLY!! And everyone is going to scream about his voting record, but like...voting correctly and actually taking an active role in these issues are 2 very different things.

Unbelievable how the Sanders crowd here can still find a way to attack Hillary for Bernie not having any women in top posts on his campaign. Oh she just has them for show. F off.

Significantly more women than men, which means that she’s likely weighting women over men for entry-level positions, while men are resting more in the middle as well as the 6-figure folks in her top 10. Her record isn’t perfect, like everything else, but the fact that Bernie has ZERO in his top 10? ...That’s really…

Right? LOLOLOL And people keep telling me gender doesn’t matter. Go on Hillary you keep doing the do while everyone tries to say they’re feminists - you’re actually PAYING the women. Go on Hill!

Seriously, this is a great article.

The results for Bernie illustrates my problem with him. He talks a great game but he doesn’t exactly inspire by his actions. Focusing on economic issues while overlooking systemic discrimination and unconscious biases is going to result in white males benefiting the greatest. I’m not comfortable with taking a backseat…

Looking forward to the attempts to mansplain away the numbers.

Near-parity between genders on campaign staff? Imagine that!