Posted on 09/20/2011 3:51:55 PM PDT by neverdem
Friction about the roles of women in the Obama White House grew so intense during the first two years of the presidents tenure that he was forced to take steps to reassure senior women on his staff that he valued their presence and their input.
At a dinner in November 2009, several senior female aides complained directly to the president that men enjoyed greater access to him and often muscled them out of key policy discussions.
Those tensions prompted Obama, urged on by senior adviser Valerie Jarrett, to elevate more women into senior White House positions, recognize them more during staff meetings and increase the female presence in the upper ranks of the reelection campaign. There were some issues early on with women feeling as though they hadnt figured out what their role was going to be on the senior team at the White House, Jarrett said in an interview Monday. Most of the women hadnt worked on the campaign, and so they didnt have a personal relationship with the president.
The womens-inclusion issue in the Obama White House is featured prominently in a controversial new book to be released Tuesday, Confidence Men: Wall Street, Washington and the Education of a President, by journalist Ron Suskind.
The book, based on more than 700 hours of interviews, including one with Obama, quotes a number of top officials describing a difficult work environment at the time for women, due largely to the dominating roles of male officials such...
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One of the most striking quotes in the book came from former White House communications director Anita Dunn , who was quoted as saying that, this place would be in court for a hostile workplace. . . . Because it actually fit all of the classic legal requirements for a genuinely hostile workplace to women....
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This is the media doing the ground work for replacing King Putt with Hitlery.
“former White House communications director Anita Dunn”
Isn’t she the idiot who loved quoting Mao?
Check out demented Mao treated *his* women. Sick.
They never felt frozen out under Clinton.
I heard the same thing about Ron Paul, but I don’t believe everything I hear.
Agree with you on that point.
Brack and Reggie? It kinda makes me wonder about Mooch and Val. You never know.
When she had to stand on stage and declare Barack her baby’s daddy, it makes one wonder who their real daddy is?
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