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aamusedinatxBy Rick Weiss
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, February 27, 2007; Page A13
When is $4 million really $2.8 million?
One answer is "When you're a woman," as the Labor Department has repeatedly found that women earn about 75 cents for every dollar that men earn for the same work.
But this week's answer is "When you are the Office of Women's Health" within the Food and Drug Administration. That office, which was at the center of a politically damaging storm over the emergency contraceptive "Plan B," just had more than one-quarter of this year's $4 million operating budget quietly removed, insiders say.</blockquote.
