Women in the Civil Service, 2015
Emily Andrews and Gavin Freeguard dig deeper into the gender balance in the Civil Service.
For the first time, Civil Service Permanent Secretaries have a set of published objectives around increasing the diversity of the Civil Service: Sir Jeremy Heywood’s objectives included "increasing the proportion of women in SCS (Senior Civil Service) roles". Women currently make up over half of all civil servants, but just 39% of the Senior Civil Service. Continuing our analysis of the 2015 Annual Civil Service Employment Statistics, Emily Andrews and Gavin Freeguard dig deeper into the gender balance in the Civil Service.
There are more senior women in the Civil Service than in 2010, but women remain concentrated at junior levels.
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- Topic
- Civil service
- Administration
- Cameron government
- Publisher
- Institute for Government