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Women's Program

The Women's Program is a Special Emphasis Program which focuses on employment, advancement and career enhancement opportunities for women.

The recruitment of women for mainstream occupations and for senior level positions are among the high priorities of the Women's Program. The long term objective is not only to eliminate underrepresentation of both minority and nonminority women, but also to sponsor activities to increase the representation of and to promote equal opportunity for women. Activities conducted in fiscal year 1985 included:

establishing Institution affirmative action goals in occupational areas where women were underrepresented;

working with the National Association of Women in Science and Engineering to develop a network for notifying women scientists and engineers of job opportunities at the Institution;

co-sponsoring the National Association of Women in Science and Engineering national conference in the Washington metropolitan area;

providing career counseling and career development information to applicants for employment and to 

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