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- Title
Challenges and Opportunities for Women to Advance in the Federal Civil Service: Veterans' Preference and Promotions.
- Authors
Mani, Bonnie G.
- Abstract
The article discusses the effects of veterans' preference on women's careers in the United States federal civil service between 1975 and 1995. This analysis applies time series regression and logistic regression to employment, promotion, age, and salary data for males and females, both veterans and non veterans. Contrary to claims that veterans, a predominantly male group, are privileged throughout their careers, these data reveal diminishing effects of the preference and disadvantages to veterans. Thus, one can expect little change in federal women's status if veterans' preference is eliminated. Preference for veterans, mostly men, may limit women's employment opportunities. Social equity benefits for veterans may cost social equity for women. This article measures the policy impacts in the federal workforce between 1975 and 1995. At this point, one might expect the impact of the policies to differ from the policy makers' original expectations. The political and social context for these policies changed with elimination of the draft, reductions in military personnel, rightsizing the federal civil service, the emphasis on equal employment opportunity, the Women's Rights Movements, and increasing numbers of women entering the workforce.
- Subjects
UNITED States; VETERANS' preference in the civil service; EMPLOYMENT of veterans; WOMEN in the civil service; PUBLIC administration; WOMEN'S employment
- Publication
Public Administration Review, 1999, Vol 59, Issue 6, p523
- ISSN
0033-3352
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/3110300