Susie Wiles’s exit adds to list of women leaving top roles in Trump administration

The departure this week of Susie Wiles as President Donald Trump’s chief of staff adds to the growing list of women who have left their high-ranking positions in the administration and been replaced by men.

Trump said Friday that he was replacing Wiles with his longtime aide Stephen Miller. Wiles was the first female White House chief of staff.

The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Attorney General Pam Bondi, Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi L. Noem and Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard have all resigned or been fired over the last year. A man was chosen to replace each of them.

The remaining female Cabinet-level officials are Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins, Education Secretary Linda McMahon and Small Business Administrator Kelly Loeffler.

There have been other high-profile departures in recent months. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt left her role at the end of August. Her replacement, Katie Zacharia, was out of her role five days into the job. More recently, on Thursday, Harmeet K. Dhillon, who led the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, resigned.

On Saturday, Trump said he has offered the White House press secretary job to Dana White, the president and chief executive officer of the Ultimate Fighting Championship. The White House and UFC did not respond to requests for more details and about whether White had accepted the job.

Dhillon’s replacement has not been announced.

Along with the high turnover rate among women in Cabinet-level positions in the Trump administration, the Partnership for Public Service told The Washington Post in June that Trump’s Senate-confirmed appointees are made up of the smallest percentage of women of any administration since George W. Bush.

When asked about the high turnover rate in June, the White House defended the hiring choices, saying they were based solely on whether the candidates could deliver for the American people.

“Unlike the identity-politics-obsessed Democrats, the President judges individuals on merit and qualifications, not immutable characteristics,” Taylor Rogers, a White House spokeswoman, told The Post in June.