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Eugene

(61,900 posts) Thu Sep 21, 2017, 05:40 PM Sep 2017

Trump is assembling the most male-dominated government in decades

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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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/sep/21/trump-is-assembling-the-most-male-dominated-government-in-decades

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Trump is assembling the most male-dominated government in decades (Original Post) Eugene Sep 2017 OP

And not a particularly impressive bunch of men, at that. The Velveteen Ocelot Sep 2017 #1

An extreme version of white maleness privilege.... yet people deny misogyny is a destructive force bettyellen Sep 2017 #2

I am a visual person and every time I watch the TV BigmanPigman Sep 2017 #3

See, optics or even facts don't matter to this crew. machoneman Sep 2017 #4

I asked DU last week if a woman can be a misogynist BigmanPigman Sep 2017 #6

I guess there aren't enough venal women. n/t malthaussen Sep 2017 #5

The Velveteen Ocelot

(115,735 posts)

1. And not a particularly impressive bunch of men, at that.

Reply to Eugene (Original post)

Thu Sep 21, 2017, 05:43 PM

Sep 2017

White, old, rich, and completely uninterested in anyone who isn't like them.

bettyellen

(47,209 posts)

2. An extreme version of white maleness privilege.... yet people deny misogyny is a destructive force

Reply to The Velveteen Ocelot (Reply #1)

Thu Sep 21, 2017, 05:48 PM

Sep 2017

In this day and age. Wake up people. Representation matters. Identity matters

BigmanPigman

(51,611 posts)

3. I am a visual person and every time I watch the TV

Reply to Eugene (Original post)

Thu Sep 21, 2017, 10:36 PM

Sep 2017

and they show scenes inside of any type of government related environment all I notice is white man, white man, brown man, white man, white man, woman, white man man, black man, white man........

If I were visiting from another planet I would think women were a very small minority instead of over 50% of the US population. No wonder the country is so fucked up and getting worse by the day.

machoneman

(4,007 posts)

4. See, optics or even facts don't matter to this crew.

Reply to BigmanPigman (Reply #3)

Fri Sep 22, 2017, 08:46 AM

Sep 2017

Republicans have been heavily slanted to older, richer white men for decades. Not too long ago, they courted pre-election a few (and I mean just a few) black males to House/Senate posts. They weren't very successful. Today they don't even try to promote non-whites or women as teh RNC figured out it was a waste of resources. Hence, male whites dominate these top organizations.

I still wonder though: how do ANY women, of any color, religion, background vote for Trump and his band of brigands? And why?????

BigmanPigman

(51,611 posts)

6. I asked DU last week if a woman can be a misogynist

Reply to machoneman (Reply #4)

Fri Sep 22, 2017, 02:26 PM

Sep 2017

and every reply said, "Of course they can". Now I think I AM a misogynist since I hate women who ARE misogynists. Does that make any sense?

malthaussen

(17,204 posts)

5. I guess there aren't enough venal women. n/t

Reply to Eugene (Original post)

Fri Sep 22, 2017, 10:48 AM

Sep 2017

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