Compensating Clinton for Her Time

I’ve been thinking this for awhile, but I finally pitched the idea in this post and comment thread at Feministe re: Clinton’s role as First Lady:

Know what I’d love to see? Is an *invoice* for eight years of salary for Clinton as First Lady. Sort of like when we tally up the cost of the work stay-at-home-moms do, and translate that into a commensurate salary.

I’d get a big kick out of Clinton requesting 8 years of back pay from the country; now that’d be an excellent gender equity/pay/women’s worth exercise that would surely cause some people’s heads to explode.

Hee.