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WOMEN'S ACCESS TO FEDERAL CIVIL SERVICE MANAGEMENT POSITIONS: THE ISSUE OF VETERANS‘ PREFERENCE
Author(s) -
Keeton Kato B.
Publication year - 1994
Publication title -
southeastern political review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1747-1346
pISSN - 0730-2177
DOI - 10.1111/j.1747-1346.1994.tb00319.x
Subject(s) - bureaucracy , preference , civil service , limiting , public administration , political science , affirmative action , service (business) , continuation , point (geometry) , public relations , organizational structure , public service , business , politics , economics , marketing , law , engineering , computer science , mechanical engineering , programming language , geometry , mathematics , microeconomics
Within the framework of affirmative action and the theory of representative bureaucracy with a focus on organizational barriers, this paper demonstrates the lack of significant success of women in attaining positions of authority (executive, administrative, managerial) in the federal civil service. The role of veterans' preference policies in limiting the access of women to federal public service management positions is shown. Assuming the continuation of a strong lobbying effect in support of the continuation of veterans' preference policies, recommendations are made to rectify the organizational barrier to women posed by veterans' preference policies through the adoption of a point system which would assign to qualified non‐veterans additional points based upon qualifications which exceed the minimum.