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Trump Cabinet's Female Exodus Sparks Gender-Equity Scrutiny

5/27/2026

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Female cabinet turnover intensifies gender-equity scrutiny in President Donald Trump's second term.
Officials Kristi Noem (dismissed March 5), Pam Bondi (removed April), Lori Chavez-DeRemer (resigned April 20 after a probe revealed husband's sexual advances), and Tulsi Gabbard (quit for husband's brain cancer) left.
Seventeen percent of President Donald Trump's nominees were non-White and 37 percent women, and the members are Secretaries Brooke Rollins and Linda McMahon, and SBA head Kelly Loeffler.

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Female cabinet turnover intensifies gender-equity scrutiny in President Donald Trump's second term.
Officials Kristi Noem (dismissed March 5), Pam Bondi (removed April), Lori Chavez-DeRemer (resigned April 20 after a probe revealed husband's sexual advances), and Tulsi Gabbard (quit for husband's brain cancer) left.
Seventeen percent of President Donald Trump's nominees were non-White and 37 percent women, and the members are Secretaries Brooke Rollins and Linda McMahon, and SBA head Kelly Loeffler.