All the President's women: Nominees make inroads on national security team Obama with Samantha Power, left, and U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice, right. (Pablo Martinez Monsivais - AP) What a difference a day - and one nominee - makes. President Obama is trying to balance the gender of his national security team. Perhaps they can field that co-ed softball team down at the Mall now? With the announcement on Wednesday that U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice would replace Tom Donilon as national security adviser, and that Samantha Power would replace Rice as ambassador, women have again achieved parity on Obama's team of top national security advisers, something that seemed a distant prospect as many of Obama's early appointments were men and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton left the job in February. We count the elite group as Rice, Power, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, Secretary of State John Kerry, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel and CIA Director John Brennan - though others could define the group more broadly. Deputy National Security Adviser for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism Lisa Monaco, while not a Cabinet member, is at the table, and Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. also provides counsel. But, overall, the men still outrank the women, making true parity elusive for now.