Instead, since the election I have been asked on numerous occasions: What message does it send to little girls that Hillary Clinton lost? What message does it send that Donald Trump isn’t going to have a 50-50 male-female cabinet?
My response is: What message does it send when women are chosen for their gender and not their ability to perform the job at hand?
The election of Donald Trump has resulted in female activists shouting about how he will push the advancement of women back 100 years; popular women’s magazines and news sites have gone as far as to tell women to “stockpile contraception, because Trump will take it away.”
I fail to see how token female appointments—with the women then owing Trump for his patronage—will be anything but “yes-women.” I would rather have one woman who is the best of the best,and selected purely on merit, than 20 who are mediocre and who actually set women back.
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