Women are adequately represented in the Obama Administration including those in the top Cabinet level positions, other judiciary positions, the White House has said. ‘I think that the record speaks for itself,’ White House Press Secretary Jay Carney said in response to reports that women are not adequately represented in the Obama Administration.
‘The President believes that diversity is important because having diversity increases the excellence of the pool of advisors around you, the pool of the staff that you have here. I think that’s been demonstrated by the degree of talent that he has around him now and has had around him in the first term, and I think it will be true in the second term,’ Carney said. ‘Women are well represented in the President’s senior staff here. Two of the three Deputy Chiefs of Staff are women.
‘The White House Counsel is a woman. A woman runs Homeland Security for this country, Secretary (Janet) Napolitano. The Cabinet Secretary in charge of the most important piece of domestic policy legislation in a generation is a woman, Kathleen Sebelius,’ he said. Referring to a New York Times story, the spokesman said White House staff here is 50/50 in its analysis.
‘And as I said, including Valerie Jarrett, women serve in key policy roles here within the White House as they do throughout the administration... This President is committed to diversity. Look at the record; it is a vast improvement,’ Carney said, adding that these stories are in reaction to a couple of appointments.
‘The President believes that diversity is important because having diversity increases the excellence of the pool of advisors around you, the pool of the staff that you have here. I think that’s been demonstrated by the degree of talent that he has around him now and has had around him in the first term, and I think it will be true in the second term,’ Carney said. ‘Women are well represented in the President’s senior staff here. Two of the three Deputy Chiefs of Staff are women.
‘The White House Counsel is a woman. A woman runs Homeland Security for this country, Secretary (Janet) Napolitano. The Cabinet Secretary in charge of the most important piece of domestic policy legislation in a generation is a woman, Kathleen Sebelius,’ he said. Referring to a New York Times story, the spokesman said White House staff here is 50/50 in its analysis.
‘And as I said, including Valerie Jarrett, women serve in key policy roles here within the White House as they do throughout the administration... This President is committed to diversity. Look at the record; it is a vast improvement,’ Carney said, adding that these stories are in reaction to a couple of appointments.