Presidential Campaign Staffs Dominated By Men: Giuliani The Worst Offender
By Zephyr Teachout and Kelly Nuxoll
The following piece was produced by the Huffington Post's OffTheBus project.
The leadership of the major presidential campaigns is dominated by men, with the Democratic campaigns slightly more balanced than Republicans.
An analysis of recently released federal disclosure documents reveals that while women make up 40% of overall staff, they hold 32% of the 88 senior positions among the top eight national campaigns. Click here to see the numbers, broken down by campaign.
Power is difficult to discern, but the relative influence of women within presidential campaigns can be partially gauged by gender ratios among salaried operatives playing strategic leadership and advisory roles, the top twenty best-paid individuals, and staff who were paid more than $9000 in the last quarter.
The campaign of Republican Mike Huckabee achieves the closest gender balance at a near 50% division between men and women on all measures (it is also the smallest of all the major campaigns). The campaigns of Democrats Hillary Clinton and Bill Richardson, and Republican Mitt Romney are also fairly balanced, with Clinton's somewhat favoring women and Richardson's and Romney's somewhat favoring men. The most gender-skewed campaign, in contrast, is that of Rudy Giuliani.
In the campaign of the former New York mayor Giuliani, there is only one senior female staffer, who holds the title of Communications Director. Fewer than one-third of Giuliani's staff who earned $9000 or more in the last quarter are women, and just a quarter of his top twenty paid staff are women.
The Democrats' campaigns are more gender-balanced than Republicans'. Just over thirty percent of Republican senior staffers are women, compared to just under 33% of Democratic senior staffers. And there are ten more top salaried women in Democratic campaigns: 32 of 80 (40%) compared to 21 of 74 (28%) in Republican campaigns.
Each campaign has its own organizational structure but this review focuses on traditional senior staff: campaign manager, deputy campaign manager, and directors of critical campaign functions, including operations, finance, communications, field, policy, research, Internet, and political strategy. In addition, the review considered chief pollsters and lead media consultants, as well as senior advisors confirmed by the campaign staff and who appeared on the FEC reports as making more than $20,000 in the last quarter.
Among the campaigns reviewed -- those of Clinton, Edwards, Huckabee, Obama, Richardson, Romney, and Thompson -- women play all these strategic leadership roles, with the exception of pollster and Political Director. However, women are far more likely to hold positions in finance and internal operations.
Some studies of gender and leadership suggest that less-balanced campaigns may be hindering themselves by not employing a more substantial number of women in their most senior positions. "Evidence of a link between the bottom line and women at the top is growing," writes the Financial Times, summing up research on a number of recent studies correlating corporate success with significant female leadership.
A just-released report by the management consulting firm McKinsey suggests that "companies where women are most strongly represented at board or top-management level are also the companies that perform best"--not only financially, but also in accountability, innovation, and work environment. The Harvard Business Review, in a separate study, found that to benefit from women's participation, a corporate board needs at least three female directors.
Arguably, female leadership on presidential campaigns is even more important than in the boardroom. After all, presidential campaigns must engage the American public--including an electorate that is majority female.
Here's a cumulative ranking of senior staff gender breakdown of the major campaigns:
HUCKABEE--Balanced, slightly favors women
Senior Staff: 4 of 6 (Communications Director, Finance Director, Field Director, Policy Director)
Top 15 paid staff: 8 women, 7 men
All paid over $9K/3rd quarter: 8 of 15 (53%)
CLINTON--Balanced, but favors women
Senior Staff: 8 of 14 (Campaign Manager, Chief Media Strategist, Traveling Chief of Staff, Policy Director, Director of Operations, 3 well-paid Senior Advisors)
Top 20 paid staff: 12 women, 8 men
All paid over $9K/3rd quarter: 85 of 161 (52%)
RICHARDSON--Balanced, but favors men
Senior Staff: 4 of 11 (Deputy Campaign Manager, Finance Director, Internet Director, one Senior Finance Advisor)
Top 20 paid staff: 8 women, 12 men
All paid over $9K/3rd quarter: 15 of 38 (39%)
ROMNEY--Balanced, but favors men
Senior Staff: 4 of 11 (Campaign Manager, Policy Director, Operations Director, Internet Director)
Top 20 paid staff: 7 women, 13 men
All paid over $9K/3rd quarter: 51 of 126 (40%)
OBAMA--Few women the top
Senior Staff: 3 of 12 (Research Director, COO, Finance Director)
Top 20 paid staff: 5 women, 15 men
All paid over $9K/3rd quarter: 67 out of 150 gender identified (45%)
EDWARDS--Few women at the top
Senior Staff: 2 of 15 (Research Director, Chief of Staff)
Top 20 paid staff: 7 women, 13 men
All paid over $9K/3rd quarter: 34 of 92 (37%)
THOMPSON--Few women at the top
Senior Staff: 2 of 9 (Research Director, Finance Director)
Top 20 paid staff: 4 women, 16 men
All paid over $9K/3rd quarter: 11 of 37 (30%)
GIULIANI--Very imbalanced
Senior Staff: 1 of 10 (Communications Director)
Top 20 identified paid staff: 4 women, 15 men, 1 unknown gender
All paid over $9K/3rd quarter: 36 of 122 (29.5%) [four unknown gender]
River Curtis-Stanley, Saba Kenedy-Washington, Daniella Kamis-Brown, Sandra P. Thompson, Kirstin Michel, Steven Greenberg, Jeanie Molloff, Paul Abroms, and Bryan Bissell also contributed reporting to this piece.
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Oh, so it's an "offence" to have hired men?
Rudy is using his cronies, the yesrudy men, from NYC for his campaign and will appoint them to his maladministration if elected. Rudy is Bush with brains and what we see out of the Bush maladministration will seem like child play compared to what Rudy will do. It's frightening and Rudy is plotting on how to eliminate congress as a part of his government.
ROFL.."eliminate congress" ???....ROFL...Besides rudy cannot become president if you clowns predictions that Bush is going to eliminate the 08 elections are true !!! Keep guessing, maybe someday you'll get one right....ROFL
These 'policies' of Guiliani's have got AIPAC - The Israel Lobby - all over it. Israel does not want peace in the Middle East or any sort of even handeness at all. Why is the US going after iran for nuclear capabilites when Israel refuses to join the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Act and has many sanctions against it - that the US refuses to enforce - through the UN for it's many destructive practices ? Also, AIPAC doesn't like the UN becasue the UN recognizes the Palestinians rights to compensation from the Israeli's for land, right of return, self determination, and statehood. AIPAC is shameless. In the 21st century someone needs to stand up to Israel and AIPAC and cut off all aid until they leave the occupied territories. They are using our monetary aid, which goes unchecked year, after year, after year, to oppress the Palestinians, and perpetuate an apartheid atmosphere, and build settlements in the occupied territories. Read 'The Israel Lobby' by Mearsheimer and Walt for all the shenanigans by AIPAC. Guliani will drag us into war after war at Israel's behest espousing that it is in our national interest when it's really just in Israel's.
What you have failed to realize that the only reason Giulianis staff is mostly men is vanity.
Can you imagine if Rudy went to the campaign headquarters in a dress and a lower paid woman staffer wore the same style and color you are talking CLASH -BIG -TIME. I have seen pictures of Giuliani in a dress so this could happen. The woman staffer would probably get fired.
Gooliani's campaign is dominated by pedophiles, drug smugglers, and mobsters.
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A "Y" gene is merely a broken or incomplete "X"
this is a ridiculous issue. don't you know that Gore was gored for having lots of female advisers?? Who cares what the gender identity is of the staff...its about who can win a general election. I'll take the Democrat who will do the right things for our people over identity politics (which everyone secretly hates) any day!
The pattern is a precursor to the gender and racial mix we will see in a Hillary Clinton administration and amen to that. Look around. It is happening on a global scale.Forward march
Jim Hurley
Why is Karl the Gimp pictured with the headlines?
I was hoping it would say what he is doing now.
It would be interesting to find out just what he is up to these days and where he is though.
Five of Rudy's staffers are of "unknown gender."
They must be the back-up singers for his drag shows.
Giuliani can't be around any woman too long without being overcome by the urge to marry her. Have some sympathy! It's the same reason a recovering alcoholic stays out of bars.
Giuliani can't be around any woman too long without being overcome by the urge to marry her
or dress like her.Rudy is a cross-dresser.
does he have the correct number of crossdressers ,his quota of blondes,brunettes, redheads, men vs women dogs vs cats what issues are these?????
Why wasn't the fact that most or Rudy's advisors are neocons that have come straight from helping us into the mess in Iraq. Might make interesting reading, but what the hell, the MSM can't be really bothered to report the facts now can they?
Rooty Poots is the worst offender when it comes to being a pervert too. I just hear this quote by him on the radio:
"I took a city known for porn and licked it, to a large extent." Family values indeed!
And did he lick the porn or lick the city? And if the latter, did he even lick the floor of the Port Authority?
I was going to stop calling them Republicks, but I love a cheap shot too much to resist it this one last time.
Giuliani is the "worst offender?"
Rudy's a tool but he can hire whoever the fuck he wants.
SO by this , Clinton is the worst offender of haveing the fewest men.
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