The Sunday New York Times published a letter by Andrea Steele, the President and Founder of Emerge, an organization dedicated to providing comprehensive political training to Democratic women who want to run for elective office.
November 1, 2009
Letters
Obama’s Male Hoop Buddies, and a Bigger Arena
To the Editor:
I read your Oct. 25 front-page Washington Memo, “Man’s World at White House? No Harm, No Foul, Aides Say,” and as the leader of an organization dedicated to getting Democratic women in positions of political power, I would say to my female friends, Let’s not be diverted.
President Obama may be playing basketball with the boys, but he has appointed an impressive group of women to key positions of power, and we need to make sure that he continues to do so.
The United States is 84th in the world in terms of women’s representation, and we have just 17 percent female representation in Congress. While Mr. Obama is dribbling the basketball with the boys, let’s work hard to get more women elected at every level of local, state and federal government.
Andrea Dew Steele
President and Founder
Emerge America
San Francisco, Oct. 25, 2009
For more information on Emerge, check out their website http://www.emergeamerica.org/.
Note: the Director of the Women & Politics Institute, Jennifer Lawless, serves on the board of Emerge.
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