The SES for many years has been under scrutiny for under-representation by race and gender. Image: NetVideo/Shutterstock.com
By: FEDweek StaffOPM’s recent report diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility in federal agencies shows that the percentage of women in the SES has risen over the last five years although the percentage by self-identified race/ethnicity has remained about the same.
As the highest level to which career employees typically can aspire, the SES for many years has been under scrutiny for under-representation in those areas.
It shows that women accounted for 43.4 percent of the total federal workforce in 2017 but only 34 percent of the SES. By 2021, those figures had changed to 44.4 percent and 37.9 percent, respectively.
Over that time, the percentage of the total federal workforce self-identifying as White fell from 63.3 to 61.2 percent, while the percentage in the SES fell by more, from 79.3 to 75.6 percent, but still well above the government-wide average.
Among race/ethnicity characteristics (using the report’s terms), representation of Black/African American rose from 10.4 to 11.7 percent; of Hispanic/Latino from 4.6 to 5.1; and of Asian from 3.5 to 4.7 percent. American Indian/Alaskan Native remained about level at 1.2 as did Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander at 0.2. The rest were either unspecified or identified as more than one.
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