Five of the 28 highest-paid staff members in the Trump Administration will be women when deputy national security adviser K.T. McFarland departs her post, according to a report published Sunday by Business Insider.

President Trump has faced scrutiny since the election over who he hired and appointed to Cabinet positions. Critics have pointed at pictures of key moments in the White House that feature only men.

ADVERTISEMENT

Kellyanne Conway Kellyanne Elizabeth ConwayGeorge and Kellyanne Conway honor Ginsburg Trump carries on with rally, unaware of Ginsburg's death George Conway hits Trump on 9/11 anniversary: 'The greatest threat to the safety and security of Americans' MORE, who was Trump’s campaign manager and now serves as a senior counselor to the president, defended examples of optics to the news outlet.

"It's like, well, I was sitting next to the cameraman, so I was right there, but I'm not in the shot," Conway told the news outlet.

"But that doesn't mean that those men haven't heard from the females," she continued. "We're heard and we're seen and we're listened to and we are sought out and sought after for our opinions and our judgment and our ideas and our insight."

She and other female members of the administration went on to describe their approach to giving the president advice as "respectful" and "deferential."