Trump is assembling the most male-dominated government in decades [View all]
Source: The Guardian
Trump is assembling the most male-dominated government in decades
A new analysis shared exclusively with the Guardian has found 80% of nominations for top jobs in the Trump administration have gone to men
Molly Redden
Thursday 21 September 2017 11.00 BST
They were military and business leaders, political insiders, novices and lords of finance. But the parade of job seekers to Trump Tower last winter almost all had one thing in common: they were men.
The work of staffing the federal government has since lost its casting-call quality, but little appears to have changed.
A new analysis shared exclusively with the Guardian has found that 80% of nominations for top jobs in the Trump administration have gone to men – putting Donald Trump on track to assemble the most male-dominated federal government in nearly a quarter-century.
Without a significant shift, men will outnumber women four-to-one in top positions of the Trump administration.
By contrast, men in government outnumbered women three-to-one during the first term of George W Bush, and there were two women for every five men in government during the Clinton and Obama administrations, according to a 2013 New York Times analysis of all appointees, Senate approved or not.
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