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"Women are still the ones that are carrying the
greatest burden when it comes to trying to balance family and work,"
President Obama said last week to a group of women who serve in the U.S.
Congress.
With this in mind, he is now planning a "White House
Summit on Working Families" to take place this summer.
Obama is no doubt preparing to cast stones at the private
sector. He really ought to look at his own administration.
Since Obama has been in office, according to data from the
Office of Personnel Management, the percentage of women in the civilian federal
work force has been shrinking. Before Obama took office, it was already smaller
than the percentage in the overall national civilian labor force. Under Obama,
it has gotten smaller still.
OPM maintains a database called FedScope
that contains historical information going back to 1998 on much of the federal
civilian labor force (but excludes, for example, the Judiciary, the White
House, the Office of the Vice President, several intelligence agencies and the
legislative staff of Congress). According to this database, about 44.4 percent
of civilian federal workers were female in 1998.
In 2013, only about 43.5 percent were
female — the lowest percentage in the sixteen years available.
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