Half of Cabinet will be women: Hillary Clinton

Eyeing to become the first woman President of the US, Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton has said that if elected to the White House half of her Cabinet would comprise women.

“I am going to have a Cabinet that looks like America, and 50 per cent of America is women, right ” Ms Clinton said during a MSNBC town hall on the eve of the crucial East Coast primaries in five states — Maryland, Delaware, Pennsylvania, Connecticut and Rhode Island.

Her remarks comes a day after her campaign manager John Podesta said that he would like to see Indian-American Neera Tanden in Ms Clinton’s Cabinet.

Ms Tanden had worked for Ms Clinton for more than 14 years and currently is head of the Centre for American Progress (CAP), a think-tank which has made its own mark at the national and international level under her leadership.

In July, Ms Clinton is likely to be the first woman to be nominated as a presidential candidate by a major political party.

The former secretary of state, who as the First Lady had said that women’s rights are human rights, has made women policies a central part of her campaign.

Ms Clinton also ridiculed her Republican counterpart Donald Trump for his lavish lifestyle, campaigning from a “big jet” and being out of touch from the ground realities.

In a speech to her supporters in Delaware, Ms Clinton said that the Republican frontrunner should come out of his towers and spend time with Americans.

“I have said, ‘Come out of those towers named for yourself and actually talk and listen to people’,” Ms Clinton said.