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Women Put Obama In Office: Will His Appointments Reflect This?

By Ann Bartow

Women’s votes made all the difference, and Obama could not have won without us. See also, see also.

Unfortunately, the majority of women also voted in favor of Proposition 8 in California, although in somewhat smaller numbers than men. We don’t get everything right. I hope we were correct about Obama. Here are a few preliminary concerns I have:

1. His choice of Rahm Emmanuel as his Chief of Staff. Veronica expressed hope back in June that he would not become Obama’s Chief of Staff. Unfortunately, he will.

2. The possibility that Larry Summers will become Secretary of the Treasury. Even some of the Supposedly Liberal Doods are having trouble with this one.

3. Joe the Biden. Though as long as Obama stays safe and healthy, he will do less damage as Vice President than he did in the Senate. See also, see also.

–Ann Bartow

ETA: Only about 1 in 5 of the potential appointees named here are women.

Full post as published by Feminist Law Professors on November 08, 2008 (boomark / email).