A friend of mine in Mississippi just called my attention to these statements by Mississippi's new Republican Governor Haley Barbour, the White Citizens Council's favorite for the job: Barbour's Comments on Women Draw Ire WLBT-TV 01/14/04.
"There's some very competent, capable women to be in this administration," he said. "The kinds of jobs we've been dealing with so far -- Corrections, the Highway Patrol, Public Safety, the Bureau of Narcotics a little bit -- not exactly the key jobs pointed in that direction."...
[Louisa] Dixon led the Department of Public Safety [under Democratic Gov. Ray Maybus] and says women can do anything men can do.
"If President Bush has enough confidence in Condoleeza Rice to be National Security Advisor, I think there are plenty of competent women who could run the Department of Public Safety." ...
"The people that you have to choose from," he said, "and they've had the opportunity to rise high enough in management to have a proven record -- the vast, vast, vast majority of them are men, just because those fields tend to be chosen more by men and less by women."
"You can certainly see that there are times when the best qualified person in one of those fields would be a woman," he continued, "but it would be rare."
I guess he could say in his defense that he hasn't been accused of groping any women, so far.
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