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>> reporter: it's one of president obama's top agenda items. here just yesterday. >> let's make sure women earn pay equal to their efforts. >> reporter: and back in april this -- >> the average-working woman earns 77 cents for every dollar a man earns. >> reporter: that's been one tricky statistic. that's the u.s. on average. what it doesn't explain is the fact that more women hold the lower-paying jobs in a number of fields. for the highest-paying roles, the pool of applicants is predominantly male for a number of reasons including choice and those fields include the white house where more wo...

Just yesterday. >> let's make sure women earn pay equal to their efforts. >> back in april this. >> the average woman earns 7 cents for every dollar a man earns. >> reporter: that has been one tricky statistic on the u.s. on average. it doesn't explain why more women hold lower paying jobs, for the highest paying roles the field of applicant is predominantly male for a number of reasons, including choice and those fields include the whoigs where more women hold lower paying positions and if you use the rhetoric, the white house pay gap has women earning 88 cents to the dollar. that hasn't chan...

>> our copanderer in chief spent the day kissing up to women. >> the average woman earns 7 cents for every dollar a man earns. the equal payday means a woman has to work about this far into 2014 to earn what a man earned in 2013. >> yes, to get the same amount of pay, women's work year is three months longer. good news, ladies. if you're 38 years old, financially, you're just 29. >> that was stephen colbert taking on equal pay debate. but the pig big news today is colbert is officially set to replace david letterman as host of the late show on cbs.

Cents for every dollar a man earns. >> the statistics the president used to day were thrown back at jay carney. after according to an analyst, the median salary of women working in the white house is 88% of that of men working in the white house. >> you would say there is no pay discrimination here at the white house, right? there is no pay discrimination at the white house? is that your -- >> it is absolutely the case there is ookabequal pay for equ work. >> but you are using the same metric to argue there is pay discrimination in the work force at large? explain to me why the metric works in...

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