Geithner: Romney claims on women and job losses "ridiculous and very misleading" Geithner's public remarks came amid a heated campaign battle between the camps of President Obama and the presumptive Republican nominee to win over female voters. Geithner, in three appearances Sunday, came out swinging against Romney's recent claims that the Obama administration had waged an economic "war" against women. Romney had said earlier this week that the "real war on women has been waged by the policies of the Obama administration . . . did you know that of all the jobs lost during the Obama years, 92.3 percent of them are women? During the Obama years, women have suffered. On Sunday, Geithner argued that "you have to look at the whole duration of the recession," and that men overwhelmingly lost jobs in the part of the recession before Obama took office. Geithner noted, as Washington Post Fact Checker Glenn Kessler and others have pointed out, that "the early job losses were felt mostly by men, because they happened in construction, in manufacturing across the economy, and as the crisis intensified over the course of "08 and the government started to feel the pressure, they had to cut back on teachers." Republicans seized on the jobs statistic in an effort to push back against Democratic claims that the GOP is waging a "war on women." But the Romney camp's use of the statistic came under criticism last week, and not from Democrats alone. Pressed by Wallace, Gillespie acknowledged Sunday that "more men than women lost jobs before President Obama took office; more women lost jobs since President Obama took office." Romney spokeswoman Andrea Saul said the Obama campaign was trying to "hide the enormous damage this president has done to American women." She said that "women have benefited from less than one-eighth of the meager job creation" the administration credits itself with achieving during Obama's tenure. "The president should stop making excuses for his failures - he is entitled to his own spin but not his own facts," Saul said. Geithner also faced tough questioning about whether the Obama administration was engaged in a "publicity stunt" by pushing the Buffett Rule to hike taxes for millionaires. Face the Nation host Bob Schieffer noted that even White House aides privately acknowledge that the proposal has little chance of passage. Geithner conceded that the plan to set a minimum tax for people making at least $1 million annually had an unphill battle. "If we don't push for things that make sense, then we're not governing," Geithner said."I certainly hope it will [pass], but I know it's a political moment. It's tough to do.