By Natalie Alms
A new Government Accountability Office review of the intelligence community s progress in cultivating a diverse workforce found that although the proportions of women, racial and ethnic minorities and persons with disabilities have increased from fiscal year 2011 to 2019, these percentages still remain well below benchmarks in the federal workforce and civilian labor force.
In the highest ranks, representation actually decreased in FY 2019, according to the report.
The GAO report compared 2019 intelligence community workforce data to numbers in a 2017 OPM report. The proportion of women in the intelligence community was about seven percentage points lower than that of the civilian labor force, and four lower than the federal workforce.