The increasing number of women in Federal Government

February 2, 2016

There was a time when women weren’t an integral part of a society and we fear those times. We have come a long way and now women constitute a pivotal part of our cabinet. There is a heavy percentage of women present in executive top level positions in the federal government and they have been making some good advancements and taking some noticeable steps in the recent past too. This is not just talk but a report released by OPM

in 2014 revealed that around 34 percent of senior positions at federal workplaces are held by women. This though is not also seen in the private sector where women carry only 14.6 percent of the executive positions (this was indicated by a Center for American progress report in 2014).

Women with executive federal government jobs:

The best part about this is that women are found in the upper levels of the government as well. We have seen stark rises in the numbers as in 1976, there were only 21 percent women who held executive positions in both administrative and professional paradigms and now (As indicated by a Merit Systems Protection Board report) the number has gone up to 44 percent. With the passage of another 5 years, we are expected to see even better results.

The former OMB administrator, Karen Evans thinks exactly like we do. She said that women hardly played any role in the cabinet before; just like in 1965 when Johnson had no women in the cabinet and it stayed the same with Nixon in charge. When Carter assumed office, he gave 3 women the change to occupy cabinet and we have only seen advancements ever since.

While we await reports that will surely indicate better results, let’s hope that this trend continues on for an endless period of time.