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Appendix E-22: NASA and Women of Color: Recruitment, Building a Pipeline, and Ensuring Inclusion and Diversity in the Workforce
Appendix E-22: NASA and Women of Color: Recruitment, Building a Pipeline, and Ensuring Inclusion and Diversity in the Workforce
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Differential analyses conducted by NASA to prioritize outreach, recruitment, and advancement efforts identified potential barriers for women of color at NASA, particularly in AST occupations. For example, Hispanic and Asian American women comprise less of the general engineering series (OPM series 801)
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37 For example, some of the actions in the Agency plan include improving women's participation in leadership development programs, short-term rotations, and other developmental assignments; apprising the Executive Resources Board and other senior councils regarding lack of diversity in senior level positions; improving the participation of underrepresented groups in student programs that lead to potential employment with NASA; coordinating education and awareness events to showcase success stories of women and help eliminate negative stereotypes; and examining the nomination processes for Agency honor awards to ensure all employees have equitable opportunities to be recognized. In addition, there are a number of other efforts that NASA is undertaking to increase the recruitment of women of color, as well as to build a pipeline to ensure there is a future workforce that is well represented by women of color.
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This represents 35 percent of the total number of higher education students served by NASA in FY 2010. NASA's solid recruitment efforts of students meet or exceed the percentages of underrepresented minorities pursuing higher education studies in STEM fields nationwide, according to the National Science Foundation Report "Women, Minorities and Persons with Disabilities in Science and Engineering: 2011." In FY 2010, of all higher education students served by the Agency, 6,042 participants self-reported being women.
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Title IX and Title VI Compliance Programs NASA recommends, as a matter of policy, that Federal agencies with the authority to provide Federal grants to educational institutions, establish and sustain vigorous civil rights compliance programs under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Title VI) , as amended, and 247
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Consistent with NASA's Title VI/Title IX programs, NASA recommends: combined Title VI/Title IX compliance reviews, including appropriate findings and recommendations to the head of the institution; agencies' Assurance of Compliance forms required from all grant recipients should contain text requesting specific information from grant selectees on their compliance with equal opportunity obligations. This information should be obtained prior to the award of grant funding; and agencies enhance their civil rights compliance programs with a strong technical assistance and outreach component.
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