Trump adds women to economic team after criticism

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump is adding eight women to his economic advisory team after criticism for initially staffing the group only with men.

The Trump campaign announced on Thursday the addition of nine members, eight of whom are women.

{mosads}The group unveiled on Friday had 13 white men, and Trump was widely panned for the lack of diversity on his team.

Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton mocked the group as “six guys named Steve” who cater to wealthy special interests.

Trump’s team also included several hedge fund managers and bank CEOs, but few economists.

The new members of Trump’s come from various fields including global finance, health and energy — and some have political experience. 

Former New York Lt. Gov. Betsy McCaughey (R) has written several books on ObamaCare. Judy Shelton was an adviser to former Rep. Jack Kemp’s National Commission on Economic Growth and Tax Reform.

Trump also added two former aides to 2012 Republican nominee Mitt Romney: Darlene Jordan, national finance co-chair for Romney’s 2008 and 2012 presidential campaigns, and Anthony Scaramucci, the only new male member and Jordan’s fellow co-chair on the 2012 campaign.

New advisers from the private sector include Diane Hendricks, who owns a holding company and building products distributor; Carla Sands, chairwoman of investment firm Vintage Capital Group; Liz Uihlein, co-founder and president of Uline, Inc., a shipping and packaging company; and Scaramucci, co-managing partner of investment firm SkyBridge Capital.

Brooke Rollins and Kathleen Hartnett White join the campaign from the Texas Public Policy Foundation, a free market think tank. Rollins is the foundation’s president and CEO, while White serves as a senior fellow and director of the foundation’s Armstrong Center for Energy & the Environment.

Four of the new members — Hendricks, Uihlein, Sands and Jordan — have raised money for Trump’s campaign.