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Federal Women’s Program
The Federal Women’s Program is a special emphasis program established in 1963
to enhance employment and advancement of women. Executive Order 11478 , signed
in 1969, brought the FWP into the overall Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO)
Program and placed it under the stewardship of the Director of EEO.
The program seeks to:
• Ensure that Federal agencies institute, plan, and take affirmative steps to
provide equal opportunity to women applicants and employees in all areas of
employment (recruitment, hiring, training, promotions, and awards).
• Provide a means for women to communicate their concerns to management.
• To ensure that agencies meet the requirements of the EEO laws, Executive
Orders, and EEOC guidelines.
• To advise management of their FWP responsibilities, the status and progress of
the program, and the concerns of women in their organization.
National Awareness Observances
August 26th – Women’s Equality Day
March – Women’s History Month
March – Women’s History Month: Each year, March is designated as National
Women’s History Month to ensure that the history of American women will be
recognized and celebrated in schools, workplaces, and communities throughout the
country. The stories of women's historic achievements present an expanded view
of the complexity and contradiction of living a full and purposeful life.
The knowledge of women's history provides a more expansive vision of what a
woman can do. This perspective can encourage girls and women to think larger and
bolder and can give boys and men a fuller understanding of the female
experience.
To honor the originality, beauty, imagination, and multiple dimensions of
women’s lives, "Women’s Art: Women’s Vision" has been chosen as the 2008 theme
for National Women’s History Month. See http://www.nwhp.org/whm/index.php to
read more about the National Women's History Project and see the honorees.
2008 Women’s
History Month Poster (pdf)
Sexual Harassment Information
Sexual Harassment – What Is It? (doc)
Resource Links
Women
in the Soil Conservation Service
National Women’s History Project
U.S. Department of Labor
– Women’s Issues
Federally Employed Women
National Federal
Women’s Program Homepage
Pennsylvania Women’s Agriculture Network
Earth Care Connection
Association of Women Soil
Scientists
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