New Book Claims Obama White House is a “Hostile Environment” for Women to Work In

A new book set to come out on Tuesday claims that President Barack Obama’s White House is a “hostile environment” for women to work there:

WASHINGTON POST: A new book claims that the Obama White House is a boys’ club marred by rampant infighting that has hindered the administration’s economic policy and left top female advisers feeling excluded from key conversations.

“Confidence Men: Wall Street, Washington, and the Education of a President,” by journalist Ron Suskind due out next Tuesday, details the rivalries among Obama’s top economic advisers, Larry Summers, former chairman of the National Economic Council, and Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner. It describes constant second-guessing by Summers, now at Harvard, who was seen by others as “imperious and heavy-handed” in his decision-making.

In an excerpt obtained by The Post, a female senior aide to President Obama called the White House a hostile environment for women.

“This place would be in court for a hostile workplace,” former White House communications director Anita Dunn is quoted as saying. “Because it actually fit all of the classic legal requirements for a genuinely hostile workplace to women.” . . . Read More

In the Obama White House’s defense, several key Democrats, including Anita Dunn, have reportedly said they did not tell Suskind that it was a hostile environment to work in. But imagine how the liberal media would take this and run with it if this were a book on the George W. Bush White House!