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Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner has fought back claims by Romney that women were more severely affected by job losses during the recession. Geithner has recognized this as an attempt on Romney’s part to draw in more female voters.

During a speech earlier this week, Romney cited that 92.3% of all jobs lost during the Obama administration belonged to women. The Treasury Secretary struck back by stating, that during the early recession, job losses were greater for men. This pertains to the time period when the manufacturing and construction industries were first dealt blows by the increasingly failing economy.

Many argue that Republicans are trying to pin the idea of a “war on women” on Democrats. According to the Republican Party, Democrats are implementing economic policies that are not beneficial for women.

Andrea Saul, a spokesperson for Romney, stated that women filled only one eighth of the jobs created during Obama’s administration. She further said, “The president should stop making excuses for his failures; he is entitled to his own spin but not his own facts.”

During an interview with George Stephanopoulos, Geithner dismissed other parties’ actions by quoting Mario Cuomo (former New York Governor), “You’re going to see a lot of politicians choose to campaign in fiction, but we have to govern in fact.”