Obama Admin Wants More Diversity In Govt

Yesterday the Obama Administration released an executive order calling for more diversity within federal hiring.

Essentially in 90 days the White House hopes to: develop a government-wide agenda for diversity in hiring, establish a Government-wide Diversity and Inclusion Strategic Plan that would be updated every four years, review current diversity hiring practices, establish a reporting system for these hiring practices and provide guidance to better diversity hiring practices already in place.

Within 120 days federal agencies must begin to implement any of these changes. The Associated Press reported that, currently, the federal workforce is:

An Office of Personnel Management report says that in fiscal year 2010, the federal workforce was 66.2 percent white, 17.7 percent black, 8 percent Hispanic, 5.6 percent Asian/Pacific Islander and 1.8 percent Native American. It was 56.1 percent male.

These numbers hardly mirror the country’s population, whether it be by race or gender, and thus the order stands to benefit just about everybody as applicants or recipients of services. It will be exciting to see how the order is implemented and what, if any, substantive changes come about in governmental hiring practices as a result.

Follow Sara Inés Calderón on Twitter @SaraChicaD.

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