Federal Daily News
Women feds more satisfied in their jobs
A new analysis finds that women in 2011 were more positive about their federal jobs and workplaces than men. That’s a change from 2010, when male feds registered a slightly higher workplace satisfaction score.
The finding came from the Partnership for Public Service’s “Best Places to Work in the Federal Government” analysis, which interprets data drawn from Office of Personnel Management’s 2011 Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey. The new Best Places mini-report, released Feb. 15, also detailed differences in ethnic and racial job satisfaction scores.
Federal women’s satisfaction score in 2011 was 67.1 on a scale of 100, up one point from the prior year, while men’s score decreased 1.5 points from 2010, to 66.4 in 2011.
While women may have expressed more positive feelings about their jobs and workplace, they still were less satisfied than men when it came to workplace fairness and empowerment. At the same time, the gap between the fairness and empowerment scores of men and women narrowed from 2010 to 2011.
Government-wide, women’s score for fairness lagged 3.4 points behind that of men in 2011. The top large agency “gender gap” on fairness was at the Small Business Administration, where women registered a score of 47.4 compared to men’s 58.8—a gap of 11.4 points. SBA was followed by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (a 10.4 point gap), Education Department (8.8 points), Housing and Urban Development Department (8.5 points) and Nuclear Regulatory Commission (8.3 points).
The analysis, “Best Places to Work Snapshot: Gender Gaps and Racial/Ethnic Divides,” is available here.