For the First Time, Women Could Head FTC, FCC

Obama may make history again

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President Obama has the chance to make history again, this time by naming the first woman chair of the Federal Communications Commission as well as one to head the Federal Trade Commission.

A woman in either post could go a long way to squelch critiques that Obama’s administration looks like a boy’s club. Over the last few weeks, groups like the Women’s Media Center (co-founded by Jane Fonda, Robin Morgan and Gloria Steinem) have turned up the heat on the president, reminding him it was the women’s vote that sent him back to the White House.

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