Hillary Clinton says half of her Cabinet would be women

WASHINGTON: Eyeing to become the first woman president of the U.S., Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton has said that if elected to the White House half of her Cabinet would comprise women.

"I am going to have a Cabinet that looks like America, and 50 per cent of America is women, right?" Ms. Clinton said during a MSNBC town hall last night.

 “I am going to have a Cabinet that looks like America, and 50 per cent of America is women, right?” Ms. Clinton said during a MSNBC town hall last night on the eve of the crucial East Coast primaries in five states — Maryland, Delaware, Pennsylvania, Connecticut and Rhode Island.

In July, Ms. Clinton is likely to be the first woman to be nominated as a presidential candidate by a major political party.

The former secretary of state, who as the First Lady had said that women’s rights are human rights, has made women policies a central part of her campaign.

“I’ve devoted a lot of my public life to advocating for women’s rights being human rights, and making the case that we have to do everything we can, through laws, regulations, culture, to change the still-existing stereotypes that hold women back,” Ms. Clinton said during the MSNBC town hall.

 “Young women coming right into the workforce often are paid pretty close to equal, if not actually equally. But within a few years there begins to be a disparity”, she added.

Ms. Clinton said she wants to really make a big, big push on equal pay for women.

“This has to finally be accomplished. I believe that if we start early and we are absolutely determined we can make a big change there. I want to make a big push for early childhood education because we can talk all we want about our schools,” she said.