Look at the judges. Bush hasn't been appointing women to high judgeships at the same level as Bill Clinton, and, women lawyers haven't been afforded a decent level of advancement in the legal community either:
From the
National Association of Women Judges:
SOME UNFORTUNATE NUMBERS
Gender diversity on the bench is not an issue of too few in the pipeline. A significant pool of indisputably qualified women candidates exists for both the Supreme Court and the lower federal courts. Highly distinguished women serve as chief judges of the U.S. Courts of Appeals for the 5th, 9th, and 10th Circuits and as chief justices of 17 of the states’ highest courts.
It is not only on the Supreme Court, however, that gains once thought irrevocable now seem more evanescent. As New York Chief Judge Judith Kaye recently observed, “Numbers matter — a lot,” and troubling signs of retrenchment can be seen in the recent erosion of gains made by women in the judiciary over the course of the 1990s. On the federal bench, for example, while 24 percent of judges are women, only 20 percent of President George W. Bush’s confirmed judicial appointees have been women, compared with 29 percent of President Bill Clinton’s.
And while a quarter of state judges are women, they tend to be concentrated in urban areas and in lower courts with limited jurisdiction. In some states, including California and Michigan, their number is increasing. However, early gains are being reversed in other states. Alaska Gov. Frank Murkowski has named only one woman in his 20 judicial selections, reversing his five immediate predecessors’ records and driving the percentage of women judges in his state back to its 1988 level. Similarly, Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney has included only four women in his 25 judicial appointees, threatening, as observed by a Boston Globe columnist, “to recast the judiciary as the white male bastion it once was.”
Of equal concern is the apparently stalled progress of women in many areas of the broader legal community from which judges are selected. Although women now constitute 28.5 percent of all lawyers, almost 50 percent of all law students, and well more than 40 percent of associates in major law firms, women’s progress at the partnership and firm leadership levels has been glacial. Only three women currently lead the nation’s largest law firms, and the percentage of women partners has risen less than 4 percentage points in 10 years, to only 17.3 percent. In legal academia, women’s rate of progress to full professor has been similarly slow-going, with women’s numbers increasing only 5 percent over the past seven years. Seventy-five percent of all tenured law school faculty in the academic year 2004-05 were male.
full report:
http://www.nawj.org/