Posted on 08/27/2013 7:48:41 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Behind the roiling conversation over whether President Obama might make Janet L. Yellen the first female leader of the Federal Reserve is an uncomfortable reality for the White House: the administration has named no more women to high-level executive branch posts than the Clinton administration did almost two decades ago.
The White House has taken steps to even its gender balance in recent months with high-profile nominations like Samantha Power as ambassador to the United Nations and Susan E. Rice as national security adviser. But by most measures of gender diversity, including the proportion of women at the cabinet level, the executive branch looks little different from 20 years ago, even as the House of Representatives, the Senate and corporate America have placed significantly more women in senior roles.
“There’s room for improvement, and we’ve seen some missed opportunities,” said Debbie Walsh, the director of the Center for American Women and Politics at Rutgers University. “We’re all watching the Fed to see what will happen there.”
Mr. Obama is choosing from a small pool of candidates for the Federal Reserve position — probably the most important economic appointment he will make in his second term. The finalists include Ms. Yellen, the Fed’s current vice chairwoman and a former Clinton administration official. The favored candidate among several top Obama aides is Lawrence H. Summers, the former Treasury secretary and Obama economic adviser.
Over all, Mr. Obama has named 13 women to cabinet-level posts, matching the historic high achieved by the Clinton administration. Mr. Obama has also put a record number of women in judicial slots, including two on the Supreme Court. Women make up about 42 percent of confirmed judges appointed by Mr. Obama, compared with 22 percent appointed by George W. Bush and 29 percent by Bill Clinton.
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What’s that you say? Obama tips toward men?
It’s more difficult to find totally crazy Muslim women these days.
So many are already servicing slain jihadists!
In terms of American values and policy, the only thing worse than Obamas male appointees, are his female appointees.
the current Kakistocracy is an equal opportunity appointer.
I’ll bet Morsi was the same way in Egypt, just like Ahmadinejad in Iran.
Shouldn’t the phrase “gay men” be in the headline instead of just “men?”
Who really cares about this?
It used to be the paper of record. Now, because it was passed on to incompetent forbears with agendas, Muslim and or gay, it is a tool of the democrat party
And, BTW, with Jarrett, Hillary and her MB staff including Huma, s powers (I’ll be pub crawling in Dublin if you need me) at the UN, and Rice at the NSA and all those girly-men like Hagel, Holder, not to mention ZmcCain and Linsey G, with whom he has surrounded himself, what are these people whining about?
There isn’t actually a man among them, unless, of course you want yo count Michelle. Then we’re talking about another subject.
You know it is hard to find qualified muslim women to head departments
Why does there need to be a balance? For Liberals, why does style always trump substance?
Sexism!
There’s been a disparate impact on women from 0bama’s policies, doncha know.
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