[LWVNM Action] FIVETHIRTYEIGHT: A Record-Breaking Number Of Women Could Be In Biden’s Cabinet

[Meredith Machen]

A Record-Breaking Number Of Women Could Be In Biden’s Cabinet
Though the president’s Cabinet is meant to expose him to a diverse set of perspectives and backgrounds, until recently, that meant diversity of geography or ideology, not diversity of gender or race. It took until 1933 for the first woman to be appointed to a Cabinet position (Labor Secretary Frances Perkins) and 1966 for the first African American (Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Robert Weaver). And even since then, women and people of color have consistently been underrepresented in
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Meredith Machen
505 577-6337
mermachen at cybermesa.com 
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