President-elect Donald Trump‘s second administration is set to have more women serving at senior levels than his first, although he still trails the diversity of President Joe Biden’s starting roster when he entered the White House.
As of Tuesday, at least 10 women have been announced for top positions in the new administration, mostly in Trump’s Cabinet. He is still making appointments with two months to go until Inauguration Day, but the figure already outpaces the female representation when Trump first took office in 2017.
The trend is notable given that gender became a bitter dividing line on the campaign trail, with businessman Mark Cuban, a surrogate for Vice President Kamala Harris, at one point accusing Trump of not associating himself with “strong, intelligent women.”
U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley, Trump’s rival in the GOP primary,…
