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Mika Brzezinski reveals she almost quit over gender pay gap (Daily Mail.U.K.)
Daily Mail. U.K. ^ | 5/8/11 | Daily Mail Reporter

Posted on 05/08/2011 5:59:14 AM PDT by SanFranDan

'I found out I was the lowest paid at the table': Morning Joe's Mika Brzezinski reveals she almost quit over gender pay gap

Morning Joe co-host Mika Brzezinski has revealed she almost quit the show after just a year because she was earning far less than her male colleagues.

The 44-year-old said she discovered she took home 14 times less than co-host Joe Scarborough - so little she struggled to make ends meet.

Ms Brzezinski makes the revelations in her new book, 'Knowing Your Value', in which she discusses how women can negotiate the salary they're worth.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


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1 posted on 05/08/2011 5:59:19 AM PDT by SanFranDan
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She said: ‘I realised instead of blaming it on MSNBC, it was me, that I didn’t understand my value, and this was a common problem I’d had throughout my career... feeling like I was at the bottom of the barrel inside because of the deal I had cut for myself.’


2 posted on 05/08/2011 6:00:34 AM PDT by SanFranDan
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They pay people for that?


3 posted on 05/08/2011 6:00:34 AM PDT by muawiyah
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To: SanFranDan

She’s always got Daddy to help out. F%$kin Elitist’


4 posted on 05/08/2011 6:02:07 AM PDT by wolfcreek (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lsd7DGqVSIc)
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To: SanFranDan

Demon seed


5 posted on 05/08/2011 6:02:51 AM PDT by ronnie raygun (V)
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To: SanFranDan

Maybe she needed a better agent? Maybe they decided to pay her at the level most social workers make? Who knows. Now a question, if she quit, would anyone have cared or noticed?


6 posted on 05/08/2011 6:03:24 AM PDT by Mouton (Voting is an opiate of the electorate. Nothing changes no matter who wins..)
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To: SanFranDan

She seems to rule out her lack of grey matter.....


7 posted on 05/08/2011 6:03:33 AM PDT by ErnBatavia (It's not the Obama Administration....it's the "Obama Regime".)
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To: SanFranDan
As I recall Mika was just a news reader the first year. No one knew who she was while Joe was an Ex-Congressman.
8 posted on 05/08/2011 6:04:43 AM PDT by mad_as_he$$ (Ladies and Gentlemen the _resident of the untied States!!)
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To: SanFranDan

She should be paid by the DNC.


9 posted on 05/08/2011 6:07:03 AM PDT by screaminsunshine (Shut up and eat your Beans!)
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To: SanFranDan
Mika is a total dunce. All she does is provide some female balance, some female color and some beauty. You can't have an all guy show. No one will tune in

In an interview earlier this year, she told Marie Claire: 'My salary situation at Morning Joe wasn't right.
'I made five attempts to fix it, then realized I'd made the same mistake every time: I apologised for asking.'

What an idiot. She didn't have an agent to do the talking?  
Her husband is making some decent money

10 posted on 05/08/2011 6:09:13 AM PDT by dennisw (NZT - "works better if you're already smart")
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To: SanFranDan

Those gynophobic monsters made her scrape by on a mere $15 million.


11 posted on 05/08/2011 6:10:05 AM PDT by Gritty-Kitty
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To: SanFranDan
Which is larger Mika?

The gender pay gap or the gap between your ears?

12 posted on 05/08/2011 6:10:26 AM PDT by N. Theknow (The MSM is to 0bama what the Broom-n-Scoop Detail is to a circus parade.)
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To: SanFranDan

Who knew who she was before the show?

Who cares now?


13 posted on 05/08/2011 6:11:29 AM PDT by nuconvert ( Khomeini promised change too // Hail, Chairman O)
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To: SanFranDan

She was still overpaid. She was only there for blonde hair and high cheekbones.

God Bless Our Troops


15 posted on 05/08/2011 6:12:22 AM PDT by bray (What do you think of waterboarding now, Obama?)
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To: SanFranDan
She believes the Marxist myth of:

"to each according to their need and
from each according to their ability"


16 posted on 05/08/2011 6:14:25 AM PDT by Uri’el-2012 (Psalm 119:174 I long for Your salvation, YHvH, Your law is my delight.)
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Worthless x 14 = 0


17 posted on 05/08/2011 6:14:49 AM PDT by bert (K.E. N.P. N.C. D.E. +12 ....( History is a process, not an event ))
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Sometimes I am ashamed to be a woman, and this is one of those times. Why do femnists think that, merely because they are women, they are worth as much or more than their male counterparts?

Given that this chippy was fired from her last news job, she was probably being paid commensurate with her experience.


18 posted on 05/08/2011 6:23:13 AM PDT by fatnotlazy
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Those of you bashing her should stop to consider something; she’s not whining that “it’s not fair.” She seems to be taking responsibility for her situation. She’s not screeching for laws to equalize the pay. Good for her.


19 posted on 05/08/2011 6:28:49 AM PDT by Grizzled Bear ("Does not play well with others.")
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To: bray
She was only there for blonde hair and high cheekbones.

And a great rack!

20 posted on 05/08/2011 6:33:37 AM PDT by JohnG45
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