The Foreign Service Journal, May 2013

44 MAY 2013 | THE FOREIGN SERVICE JOURNAL Increasing Accountability for Gender Diversity Usually, all of these efforts are coordinated by an office within the organization with specific responsibility for the gender portfolio. But we lack such a unified approach at State, where responsibility is shared among State’s Office of Civil Rights, the Family Liaison Office, various divisions of HR and other offices, with no one clearly accountable for achieving greater gender diversity. The Federal Women’s Program in our All groups of employees would benefit from the establishment of a more diverse and inclusive organizational culture. overseas posts also needs more care and feeding from Wash- ington, which might include something as simple as creating a platform for sharing ideas and program resources. FLO is under-resourced to provide the type of assistance needed to tackle a problem that directly affects female FSOs: spousal employment. A growing number of global organi- zations provide various types of assistance to spouses and partners of employees sent overseas as an inducement for the