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- Title
Women and minorities in federal government agencies: Examining new evidence from panel data.
- Authors
Comwell, Christopher; Kellough, J .Edward
- Abstract
The article presents information on the percentage of jobs held by the women and minorities and the growth rates in their employment share. Women comprise more than 43 percent of the total federal civilian force while African Americans hold 16.6 percent of those positions and Hispanic representation stands at 5.4 percent. The issue discussed in the article is the extent to which interagency differences in female and minority employment shares, as well as share changes, are systematically related to the distribution of occupations within an agency and an agency's demographic and organizational characteristics. Several studies of municipal employment have found that the presence of public employee union has a negative effect on minority and female employment representation. Contrary to expectations, the percentage of technical jobs also was shown to influence positively the proportion of women in an agency's work force. The African-American employment was significantly lower in agencies with high proportion of professional jobs.
- Subjects
UNITED States; WOMEN employees; WOMEN in the civil service; AFRICAN Americans; MINORITIES in the civil service; EMPLOYMENT; GOVERNMENT agencies; FEDERAL government; GOVERNMENT policy
- Publication
Public Administration Review, 1994, Vol 54, Issue 3, p265
- ISSN
0033-3352
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/976730