The 2020 candidate's new pledge, part of a plan to clean up the executive branch, comes as Warren seeks to consolidate female voters.
Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren on Tuesday promised to appoint women or nonbinary people to at least half of the top positions in the executive branch if she wins the presidency.
Just four of the 23 members of Trump’s Cabinet – Labor Secretary Elaine Chao, Education Secretary Betsy Devos, CIA Director Gina Haspel and Small Business Administration head Jovita Carranza – are women. At its peak, the administration of former President Barack Obama had eight female Cabinet members.
A 2020 rival, former Mayor Pete Buttigieg, said in October that he would nominate a Cabinet with at least half the members women.
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