Neera Tanden, the President of the liberal think tank Center for American Progress (CAP) who has close ties to Hillary Clinton, is calling for a large percentage of females to hold Cabinet positions when the new US president takes office in 2017.
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If half of the members of Canada’s Cabinet can be female, why couldn’t
we get to 50 percent, too? We’re talking about finding, at minimum, 11
women out of the almost 160 million in this country who could serve in
the Cabinet at once...
What would that Cabinet look like? It’s not hard to imagine that, in
2017, a Michèle Flournoy, former undersecretary of defense for policy,
could become the first female defense secretary, or a Sheryl Sandberg,
COO of Facebook, could become the first woman as Treasury secretary. For
a Republican Cabinet, New Mexico Gov. Susana Martinez would be more
than qualified to lead the Justice Department, and South Carolina Gov.
Nikki Haley would be a highly capable choice to head the Department of
Homeland Security.
CAP is known to have greatly influenced a number of policies in the Obama Administration, and will likely have a massive influence on a Hillary administration should she become president.
