No rant here, it just appears so unbalanced that it catches the attention. It is highly unlikely this would go unnoticed if they were all Italian American (who are way more numerous) or something.

This fairly significant over-representation should be surprising to someone who believes these appointments should be blind to such a variable. After all, how statistically likely are these appointments to be so disproportionally distributed to such a tiny percentage of the population if such a variable plays no role?

I would expect to see more diversity in those ranks. Not a single woman (50% of the population), African-American (13%), Asian American (5%) or Hispanic (17%), ever. I find it especially interesting in contrast to its total lack of representation/interest for some other (arguably much less important) posts such as Secretary of Veteran Affairs or Secretary of Interior (none, ever). Those are the types of posts you historically find some of the token ‘diversity’ appointments to ‘minorities’.

I guess if we have Yellen, we will at least introduce have some gender diversity for a change. Let’s see.