Women's Representation in the U.S. Department of Defense Workforce: Addressing the Influence of Veterans' Employment

Abstract

U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission regulations direct federal agencies and departments to compare their workforce demographics with those of the civilian labor force (CLF). This process provides indicators of where there might be barriers to equal opportunity that are amenable to personnel policy changes. Persistent discrepancies between employees who work for the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) and workers in the CLF prompted the Office of Diversity Management and Equal Opportunity to ask the RAND Corporation to perform a formal analysis of these workforce differences and potential barriers therein. Previous RAND work examined DoDs relatively low proportion of Hispanic employees in depth (Matthews et al., 2017). This report represents an exploratory effort examining the relatively low level of womens representation and testing the utility of alternative methods in better understanding workforce dynamics.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 2018
Accession Number
AD1063627

Entities

People

  • David Schulker
  • Miriam Matthews

Organizations

  • RAND Corporation

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Administrative Personnel
  • Air Force
  • Demography
  • Department Of Defense
  • Education
  • Employment
  • Equal Employment Opportunity
  • Governments
  • Management Personnel
  • National Governments
  • National Security
  • Organizational Structure
  • Personnel Management
  • Public Administration
  • Unified Combatant Commands
  • United States Government
  • Urban Areas

Readers

  • Computational Modeling and Simulation
  • Defense Technology Research and Development.
  • Organizational Psychology.