Among the challenges Vice President Kamala Harris encountered upon taking office was desk furniture sized for the “average male height” of her predecessors, according to a new report.
The frustration led the Biden administration to order new desk chairs to accommodate Harris, who is 5 feet, 2 inches tall.
Jamal Simmons, Harris’s communications director until late last year, told the New York Times that the desk chairs in the vice president’s office needed to be changed to fit her frame “instead of the ‘average male height'” of past vice presidents. Harris is the first female vice president.
“She forces us to recalibrate our assumptions,” Simmons explained.
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