唐纳德·特朗普大概率已由其政治团队汇报了美国政治中持续存在的性别差距问题。例如，最新的皮尤研究中心民调显示，该总统在男性中的支持率为33%，而在女性中则降至26%。同一项调查还发现，在中期选举中，民主党和共和党在男性选民中持平，但女性计划投给民主党——领先优势达14个百分点。
Donald Trump has probably been briefed by his political team on the ongoing gender gap in American politics. In the latest Pew Research Center poll for example, the president’s approval rating among men was 33%, but among women it was down to 26%. The same survey found that in the midterm elections, Democrats and Republicans were tied among men, but women plan to vote Democratic — by a 14-point margin.
距离中期选举周期结束仅剩两周，白宫采取了一个适度的步骤来应对这一问题，尽管此举并非毫无瑕疵。
With just two weeks remaining in the midterm election cycle, the White House took a modest step toward addressing this problem, though the move was not without flaw.
周一上午，总统签署了一项行政命令，在国家卫生研究院设立女性健康部，据称将与新成立的白宫女性健康工作组协同工作。据特朗普称，这一想法是由其妻子、第一夫人梅拉尼娅·特朗普推动的，她在启动仪式上罕见地发表了公开讲话。
On Monday morning, the president signed an executive order creating a Women’s Health Division at the National Institutes of Health, which will apparently work alongside a new White House Women’s Health Task Force. According to Trump, the idea was pushed by his wife, first lady Melania Trump, who delivered rare public remarks to the kickoff event.
“从今天开始，我们将改变女性健康的现状，”她说。“上一代人为女性权利而战。我们这一代将致力于发现治愈良方，确保女性能在健康中充实地度过一生。” 表面上看，这项倡议完全值得肯定，但仔细审视会发现一些值得关注的问题。
“Beginning today, we will change the reality of women’s health,” she said. “Previous generations fought for women’s rights. Our generation will fight to discover the cures that will ensure a woman can live her life in health and to the fullest.”On the surface, the initiative seems entirely worthwhile, but a closer look reveals some notable points of concern. The leadership:
领导层：白宫工作组将由卫生与公众服务部部长小罗伯特·F·肯尼迪共同主持，他完全不胜任这一角色，且他对治理的疏离感强化了该倡议主要是做样子的印象。
The White House’s task force will be co-chaired by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who is wildly unqualified for such a role, and whose disengagement from governing reinforces impressions that this initiative is largely for show. The resources:
资源：虽然该倡议背后的目标有其价值，但真正需要的是对科学研究的实质性投入，而特朗普的行政命令既未拨付任何资金，也未包含任何融资目标。
While the objective behind the initiative has merit, what’s needed are real investments in scientific research, and Trump’s executive order neither allocated any funds nor included any funding goals The redundancy:
冗余性：在NIH专门设立一个专注于女性健康的办公室这一想法听起来很棒，但特朗普团队并非首创：NIH的女性健康研究办公室已成立36年。《华盛顿邮报》报道补充道：“特朗普的倡议类似于历届政府的活动。时任第一夫人吉尔·拜登曾推动类似举措以启动女性健康研究，拜登政府官员于2023年11月启动了他们自己的白宫行动，旨在协调跨政府响应，推动女性健康发展。”
The idea of creating an office at the NIH specifically focused on women’s health sounds great, but Team Trump didn’t come up with the idea: The NIH has had an Office of Research on Women’s Health for 36 years Washington Post report added, “Trump’s initiative resembles past administrations’ activities. Then-first lady Jill Biden pursued similar efforts to jump-start women’s health research, and Biden officials in November 2023 launched their own White House effort intended to coordinate a cross-government response to boost women’s health.”The record:
记录在案：共和党政府重视女性健康研究是好事，但这似乎是一个相对较新的优先事项。据《纽约时报》报道，就在去年，在肯尼迪领导下，特朗普的卫生与公众服务部曾试图“削减女性健康倡议的资金，这是一项长期由纳税人资助、始于20世纪90年代、研究广泛女性健康问题的研究项目。”推出过程：总统在宣布该倡议时似乎有一个直截了当的目标，但他一如既往地偏离了准备好的讲稿，开始谈论除其他事情外，他对自己的装修决定印象多么深刻，对白宫玫瑰园的更换，为白宫露台座椅“特制”的垫子，以及他对女性鞋子受损的担忧。
It’s good to see the Republican administration take women’s health research seriously, but this appears to be a relatively new priority. As The New York Times reported it was just last year when Trump’s Department of Health and Human Services, under Kennedy’s leadership, tried to “slash funding for the Women’s Health Initiative, a long-running, taxpayer-funded study of a broad range of women’s health issues that began in the 1990s.”The rollout: While the president had a seemingly straightforward objective when announcing the initiative, he predictably strayed from his prepared text started talking about among other things, how impressed he was with his renovation decisions, the replacement of the White House Rose Garden, the cushions he had “specially made” for White House patio seats and his concerns related to damage to women’s shoes.
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