It's a Man's World

Inside the gender breakdowns of Washington's premier think tanks.

BY MICAH ZENKO | JULY 14, 2011

American Enterprise Institute
Policy-related fields: 39 staff total, 6 women (15%)
(No information on non-policy-related staff)

Brookings Institution
Policy-related: 284 staff total, 57 women (20%)
Total: 293 staff total, 62 women (21%)

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Policy-related: 17 staff total, 3 women (18%)
Total
: 25 staff total, 7 women (28%)

Center for American Progress
Policy-related: 78 staff total, 22 women (28%)
Total: 102 staff total, 41 women (40%)

Center for a New American Security*
Policy-related: 16 staff total, 4 women (25%)
Total: 24 total, 12 women (50%)

*Update, July 26, 2011: CNAS's numbers were updated based on information provided by CNAS on July 25.

Center for Strategic and International Studies
Policy-related: 90 staff total, 25 women (28%)
Total: 108 staff total, 33 women (31%)

Council on Foreign Relations
Policy-related: 78 staff total, 17 women (22%)
Total: 127 staff total, 51 women (40%)

Heritage Foundation
Policy-related: 64 staff total, 11 women (17%)
Total: 92 staff total, 25 women (27%)

Peterson Institute
Policy-related: 38 staff total, 6 women (16%)
Total: 44 staff total, 8 women (18%)

Stimson Center
Policy-related: 13 staff total, 3 women (23%)
Total: 18 staff total, 9 women (50%)

TOTAL policy-related staff: 723 staff total, 154 women (21%)
TOTAL leadership staff: 874 staff total, 250 women (29%)

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 SUBJECTS: NATIONAL SECURITY
 

Micah Zenko is a fellow in the Center for Preventive Action at the Council on Foreign Relations. He writes the blog Politics, Power, and Preventive Action.

NERDGIRL

4:30 PM ET

July 14, 2011

Well, it's roughly on par

Well, it's roughly on par with Congress (96/435, 22%) but better than tenured faculty in most science and engineering fields ...

 

JEFF HAZELWOOD

3:01 PM ET

July 15, 2011

another call for preferential treatment...

Women work 44% of total hours in America, yet they only represent 7% of workplace fatalities. This under-representation is never subject to protest and clamor for immediate corrective action.

Why? Because it is a natural result of women selectively choosing to pursue professions that are easier and safer.

Fine. But, I take issue when women are preferentially treated in the hiring process for dangerous work, like the military, and then are protected from the dangers of that work. Witness the 2.5% female contribution to combat deaths in Operation Iraqi Freedom and 1.6% contribution to deaths in Operation Enduring Freedom.

More opportunity. Same pay. Less risk. Less injury and death. This equals preferential treatment and yet those same folks who profess a desire for true equality are silent.

This article is a call for intervention to enable women to preferentially enjoy the prestige and high pay associated with cream of the crop jobs at the highest levels of employment in foreign policy.

This is another call for gender-biased, preferential hiring that is unconnected to any desire for true gender equality.

Modern feminism is once again showing its true colors: equality of outcome and preferential treatment when goodies are involved, unequal protection and freedom from civic responsibilities when unpleasantness and danger are involved.

Naked hypocrisy and misandry....as usual.

When I see articles protesting the lack of men in the classroom and the lack of women dying in the trenches, I'll believe that feminist writers have a shred of integrity and credibility.

 

CHANGS

9:52 AM ET

August 8, 2011

Equal Opportunity To Access

The playing field should provide equal opportunity, not preferential treatment as I have seen in my life.

For several years I worked in a position that required travel up to 50% of the time as a condition of employment. Forty percent of the staff were women yet they were not required to travel if they had children at home.

This meant the rest of us had to travel more to make up for their not traveling. I was a single woman at the time but I could understand the complaint of married men that it wasn't fair to make the men and single women travel more so the married women could be at home each night.

Even air travel quickly becomes tiring when you are traveling three weeks out of four and it becomes very tiresome when you are having to travel an extra week each month so another person with children does not travel.

As a woman I am all for equal opportunity to access for any job but as a woman I must be willing to perform every part of the job or not accept the job.

So let's have equal opportunity of access to all jobs but once a person accepts that job then the individual should be required to perform all duties of the job and not given a pass on some aspects of the job because they are women.

ChangS

 

NESTOR ESCHETE

3:44 AM ET

August 12, 2011

It's a Man's World

One time talking with my friend, alexis texas, she showed her concern about this matter:

It is all a far cry from the Clinton era. Bill Clinton was not just the first black president, as Toni Morrison dubbed him; he was also the first androgynous president, shifting between masculine and feminine roles as it suited him. With the cold war over, he was free to focus on such traditionally “female" subjects as health care and day care, and feeling everybody's pain. He was visibly uncomfortable with military men (remember that limp salute) and preferred to spend his vacations hobnobbing with metrosexuals in Martha's Vineyard. His one attempt at roughing it, a poll-tested rafting trip, proved a disaster.

The reason for the change is simple. No sooner did the planes hit the twin towers and the Pentagon than America rediscovered its butch side. The heroes of September 11th were the firefighters and policemen. The heroes of the subsequent war on terrorism have been soldiers who go abroad to hunt America's enemies. These have not all been men, to be sure. But they have shown virtues associated, from time immemorial, with manliness.

 

VALENE231

11:08 PM ET

August 12, 2011

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MICHEALHOLDING

7:34 AM ET

August 13, 2011

Fine. But, I take issue when

Fine. But, I take issue when women are preferentially treated in the hiring process for dangerous work, like the military, and then are protected from the dangers of that work EurekaEnviroSteamer. Witness the 2.5% female contribution to combat deaths in Operation Iraqi Freedom and 1.6% contribution to deaths in Operation Enduring Freedom.

 

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10:43 PM ET

August 15, 2011

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