WaPo: Obama To Tap Jarrett For New WH Women's Council

[babylonsister]

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/thefix/2009/03/obama_creates_white_house_wome.html?wprss=thefix%22,,0,0,,,,

Obama Creates White House Women's Council



Valerie Jarrett will head a new White House women's council. AP photo by Evan Vucci



President Obama will sign an executive order tomorrow to establish a White House Council on Women and Girls, according to an administration official familiar with the move.

The Council will be chaired by Valerie Jarrett, a senior adviser and personal friend to the president, and the day-to-day operations will be run Tina Tchen, who is currently director of the White House Office of Public Liaison and was a major fundraiser for Obama during the campaign.

"The mission of the Council will be to provide a coordinated federal response to the challenges confronted by women and girls to ensure that all Cabinet and Cabinet-level agencies consider how their policies and programs impact women and families," reads a memo describing the move and obtained by The Fix.

The announcement is designed to coincide with the celebration of national women's history month.

Obama has both personal -- his wife and two daughters -- and political reasons to make this sort of high profile move to ensure that women's needs are being addressed by his administration.

In 2008, 53 percent of the electorate was female and Obama carried that group 56 percent to 44 percent over Arizona Sen. John McCain. That is a significant improvement from Sen. John Kerry's (D-Mass.) performance in 2004 when women made up 54 percent of the electorate and the Democrat won them by only three points.

Obama and his team know that if he can maintain his 2008 margin among women in his reelection race in three years time, he will be sitting pretty. Expect then more symbolic moves like the establishment of the Council to demonstrate Obama's commitment to women and women's issues.

[camera obscura]

1. Great news!

First the Senate creates a subcommittee for global women's issues, now this. There's reason to feel optimistic!

[vaberella]

2. Breaking down institutionalized prejudice through social construction one program at a time.

Thank you President Obama.
K*R

:kick:

[GreatCaesarsGhost]

3. can their headline be more sexist?

[babylonsister]

5. Where's your mind? I never even considered that til you brought it up. nt

[GreatCaesarsGhost]

6. it's not my mind,, it's the Post's

i've read the Post for decades until i cancelled it a few years ago.

it's their style. it was intentional.

[ellacott]

7. What's sexist about the headline?

[PassingFair]

8. Really?

[ellacott]

10. What's sexist about it?

It's a sincere question. I'm not afraid to admit that sometimes things go over my head.

[PassingFair]

11. The subliminal use of the verb "tap"...

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=tap+that+ass

[ellacott]

12. Goodness

I guess my mind didn't even go there.

Sounds like it's more sexist to even have that definition in your mind and immediately come to that association.

This board is funny sometimes. :)

[firedupdem]

4. Go Valerie!.....n/t

[rox63]

9. Waiting for the slams from the MSM's sexist crowd

3, 2, 1... x(