Federal Affirmative Employment

Status of Women and Minority Representation in the Federal Workforce Gao ID: T-GGD-92-2 October 23, 1991

A basic personnel policy, set out by law, is to create a competent, honest, and productive federal workforce that reflects the nation's diverse population. While improvements have occurred, the federal civilian workforce still does not reflect the nation's diversity; white women and Hispanics in the federal workforce continue to lag behind their representation in the nation's civilian workforce. This testimony focuses on the representation status of women and minorities in the federal workforce, particularly at the upper grade levels and in jobs that typically lead to those grades. GAO also discusses the need (1) to improve the statistical criteria used to measure women and minority representation and (2) for more emphasis on collecting and/or analyzing recruiting, hiring, training and development, promotion, and separation data to better identify barriers to women and minorities.

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