Woman Joins Obama Golf Foursome

President Barack Obama's chief domestic policy adviser, Melody Barnes, became the first woman to play in the president's golf foursome on Sunday, following criticism that a testosterone-laden boys' club mentality dominates the White House inner circle.

The Associated Press reported the breakthrough.

"President Barack Obama's chief domestic policy adviser, Melody Barnes, became the first woman to play in the president's golf foursome. She joined the president, Marvin Nicholson, the White House trip director, and Dr. Eric Whitaker, the executive vice president at the University of Chicago Medical Center, for a round on the Army's Fort Belvoir golf course," the AP reported.

Recently, Obama was criticized for hosting a high-level basketball game with no female players. The suspicion of gender inequality was considered in a front-page story in The New York Times on Sunday.

"The technical foul over the all-male game has become a nagging concern for a White House that has battled an impression dating to the presidential campaign that Mr. Obama's closest advisers form a boys' club and that he is too frequently in the company of only men -- not just when playing sports, but also when making big decisions," The New York Times reported.