CAREER OPPORTUNITIES FOR WOMEN

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88-00428R000200080016-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 10, 2010
• Sequence Number: 16
• Publication Date: March 27, 1984
• Content Type: MEMO

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27 March 1984
MEMORANDUM FOR: Executive Director/DDA
Deputy Director of Training and Education
SUBJECT: Career Opportunities for Women
REFERENCE: DDA 84-0759/1
1. The Executive Director's request provided an opportunity
for a most useful exchange of ideas and opinions which went a bit
beyond the basic request. The discussion group included ten
articulate, thoughtful women with different perspectives and some
decidely different notions about dealing with this issue. Any
attempt at summary is a bit dangerous but the sense of the session
was that women need and want opportunities to be involved; they
are anxious to assume more responsibility and to play meaningful
management roles in the Agency. In making assignments, Agency
managers should be less concerned about the "rightness" of the
opportunity and the possibility of failure, and more intent on
moving qualified women into these positions when the opening
comes.
2. Some specific suggestions generated during the meeting
included:
Conduct consciousness raising sessions at the
component level focusing on such subjects as:
o statistics on the assignments and grades of
Agency women and the implications thereof
o ways to alleviate internal and external
barriers to women in managerial roles
Give women the opportunity to perform in senior
jobs that are temporarily open in order to provide
visibility and/or experience.
Include material on this issue in appropriate
training courses and develop seminars for mixed
groups in order to sensitize both men and women
to their feelings about women in managerial positions.
Sent by via AIM on March 1984.
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