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In the presidential debate with Obama, Willard said that he
had "requested binders full of women" when he was governor of
MA. This is a story that he has been telling of how when he became
governor, he looked around and saw all men. He then asked where the women were
and was told there no qualified women to be on his governing body. Well, Mr
Willard said he was not going to accept that and requested that a search of the
entire state be launched to find capable women to be in his cabinet. Hence the
result was "Binders full of women". And indeed, he got the women.
MassGAP said that Mr. Willard had 14 women in his cabinet top positions of 33.
A 42 percent rate. But then the picture gets a bit murky. The Boston Globe
reported that “the percentage of
senior-level appointed positions held by women
actually declined throughout the Romney administration, from 30.0
percent prior to his taking office, to 29.7 percent in July 2004, to 27.6
percent near the end of his term in November 2006. Further more, at Bain, the place Willard headed for 15
years, there are only seven women among the company’s 87 managing directors and
senior executives, or 8 percent, according to Bloomberg
BusinessWeek, falling ever-so-slightly below the national average of 8.1
percent. Now I say, someone who has all those binders
full of capable women, why not have more women on his board? In response to the question that was actually asked in the
debate, "Do you support equal pay ", Willard is still yet to get back
to America on that.
Romney reminds me of the white guy that says he cannot be racist
because he has “Black friends”.
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