The press briefing by the White House, where Press Secretary Jen Psaki said that the administration has been left “outrage” by Pakistan’s decision to release the militant accused of killing journalist Daniel Pearl, was nearly all women. 

Thursday’s White House briefing featured an almost female cast of characters, as Washington Post journalist Matt Viser tweeted that 20 minutes into the press conference, eight questions were asked by reporters, all women. 

“Pretty impressive,” he said in his tweet. 

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Another Twitter user noted the event, saying it was “so lovely” that almost all press in the room were women, who were asking ‘intelligent questions in a civil and polite manner and being answered in the same way.” 

Another user took to Twitter, saying ‘love seeing so many women reporters in today’s Whitehouse daily press briefing.’

Meanwhile, the only male correspondent in Thursday’s briefing was Rob Crilly, a White House reporter for the Washington Examiner. He took to Twitter to note that he was the only male journalist present in the White House briefing room. He tweeted a photo of himself in sitting the room and wrote, “I’m the only male journalist with a briefing room seat today so I figured I would make an effort,”

According to The Hill, many major US media outlets, including ABC, CBS, NBC and CNN, have female chief White House correspondents, a position typically dominated by men.