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Nikki Haley

Nikki Haley's resignation will mean there are 5 women left in President Trump's Cabinet

Erin Kelly
USA TODAY
President Donald Trump shakes hands with Nikki Haley, the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, at the White House on Oct. 9, 2018 after Haley resigned.

WASHINGTON – When Nikki Haley leaves her job as U.N. ambassador at the end of the year,  just five women will be left in President Donald Trump's Cabinet.

The other 17 Cabinet members are all men. 

Trump said he is considering at least one woman to replace Haley: Dina Powell, a former deputy national security adviser to the president. Powell now works as an executive at Goldman Sachs. 

The president said he also thought his daughter, Ivanka Trump, would be a "dynamite" choice, but he said he would be accused of nepotism if he appointed her.

Here's a look at the five women remaining in Trump's Cabinet:

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Elaine Chao

Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao talks to reporters during the daily press briefing at the White House Tuesday.

Chao serves as secretary of transportation. This is her second Cabinet position. She served as secretary of labor for former President George W. Bush, becoming the first Asian-American woman to serve as a Cabinet officer.

Before joining the Bush administration, Chao was president and CEO of the United Way of America. She also served as director of the Peace Corps.

Chao is part of a Washington power couple. She is married to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky.

Betsy DeVos

Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos

DeVos serves as secretary of education.

Before joining the Trump administration, DeVos was chairman of The Windquest Group, an enterprise and investment management firm. She also was active in education issues in her home state of Michigan, where she championed charter schools and voucher programs that allow parents to receive public funding to send their children to private schools.

Gina Haspel

Gina Haspel testifies in front of the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence during her confirmation hearing March 13, 2018 in Washington. President Trump nominated Haspel to be CIA Director, replacing Mike Pompeo, the current Secretary of State.

Haspel serves as CIA director.

She is a career intelligence officer who joined the CIA in 1985 and served most of that time as a covert agent on assignment around the world. In Washington, Haspel has served as deputy director of the CIA and as acting director and deputy director of the National Clandestine Service.

Linda McMahon

Linda McMahon, administrator of the Small Business Administration (SBA), listens while meeting with women small business owners with U.S. President Donald Trump, not pictured, in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, DC, USA

McMahon serves as administrator of the Small Business Administration, which helps small companies get federal contracts and capital.

She is the co-founder and former CEO of World Wrestling Entertainment, or WWE, which is based in Stamford, Connecticut. She stepped down as CEO in 2009 to run for the Senate. She lost the 2010 race to Democrat Richard Blumenthal and the 2012 race to Democrat Chris Murphy.

Kirstjen Nielsen

Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen speaks to George Washington University's Center for Cyber and Homeland Security, in Washington, Wednesday, Sept. 5, 2018. The Trump administration is planning to circumvent a longstanding court agreement on how children are treated in immigration custody. That means families will be kept in detention longer. Homeland Security announced Thursday it would terminate the agreement which requires the release of immigrant children generally after 20 days. It would instead adopt regulations that administration officials say will provide care of minors, but allow changes to deter migrants illegally crossing the border. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen) ORG XMIT: WX102

Nielsen serves as secretary of homeland security.

She previously worked as Trump's deputy chief of staff at the White House. She also served as chief of staff to former Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly, who is now Trump's chief of staff. Nielsen advised Kelly on counterterrorism, cybersecurity and border security at the Department of Homeland Security.

Before joining the Trump administration, Nielsen was the founder and president of Sunesis Consulting, a private firm focused on ways to prepare for and prevent catastrophic events.

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