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Cristina Romer To Chair CEA

By Big Tent Democrat

Through his deeds, President-Elect Obama is proving himself to be a worthy feminist, imo. Today, the President-Elect will name Cristina Romer the Chairman of his Council of Economic Advisers:

ABC News has learned that President-elect Obama had tapped University of California -Berkeley economics professor Christina Romer to be the chair of the Council of Economic Advisers, an office within the Executive Office of the President.

Romer, a widely respected economist with an expertise on the U.S. economy, will be one of the key economic advisers whom Mr. Obama will introduce to the nation this morning, along with New York Federal Reserve president Timothy Geithner, tapped to be Obama's nominee for Secretary of the Treasury, and former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers, who will serve as the director of the National Economic Council.

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I know nothing about Prof Romer but I do know this -- with little fanfare, the President-Elect has placed women in positions of prestige and influence in his Administration - State, Homeland Security, Director of Communications and now Chair of the CEA.

Some will say that by focusing on the fact that these appointments are women I am belittling their qualifications. I do not see it that way. There have always been very well qualified women capable of doing these tough jobs (including the Presidency for that matter.) But by actually naming women to these posts, the President-Elect makes manifest this important point. And hurrah for him for that.

By Big Tent Democrat, speaking for me only

Full post as published by TalkLeft on November 24, 2008 (boomark / email).