LETTER TO MR. HELMS FROM (MRS.) PENELOPE II. THUNBERG

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• Publication Date: November 28, 1966
• Content Type: LETTER

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THE PRESIDENT'S STUDY GROUP ON CAREERS FOR
(Recipients, Federal Woman's
Awnr(l, 1961 -1966)
Dr. Beatrice Aitchison
Yost Office Department
1t!. t'.velyn Atitleetion
National Aeronautics and Space
Administration
Miss Ruth Bacon
D,-partmcn I of Stir to
Dr. Gertrude Blanch
D t orhnrnt of the Air Force
Miss Fannie M. Boyls
Nation:,! Labor Relations Board
Mrs. Katherine W. Bracken
Department of State
Miss Margaret H. Brass
1),rpartment of Justice
Miss Ann Z. Caracristi
National Security Agency
Miss Stella E. Davis
U. S. Infommtion Agency
Dr, Elizabeth B. Drewry
Genes! Services Administration
i)r. Thelma B. Dunn
Department of Health, Education
and Weltare
Miss Selene Gifford
Department .11. to,lo,
` Is, Dorothy M. Gilford
Department of the Navy
Dr. Jocelyn R. Gill
Natinnat Aeronautics and Space
Adrnin i s tra Lion
;iiss Evelyn Harrison
U.S. Civil Service Commission
.Dr. Allene R. Jeanes
1)apartment of Agriculture
Miss Nina Kinsella
Department of Justice
Miss Carol C. Laiso
Department of State
Dr. Eleanor L. Makel
Departs ent of Health, Education
and Welfare
Miss Bessie Margolin
Department of Labor
Mrs. Katherine Mather
Department of the Army
Mrs. Ida C. Merriam
Department of Health, Education
and Welfare
Mrs. Elizabeth F. Messer
U.S. Civil Service Commission
Miss Verna C. Mohagen
Department of Agriculture
Mrs. Blanche W. Noyes
Federal Aviation Administration
Miss Irene Parsons
Veterans Administration
Miss Eleanor C. Pressly
National Aeronautics and Space
Administration
Dr. Nancy G. Roman
National Aeronautics and Space
Administration
Dr. Margaret W. Schwartz
Dopa rtm ant of Treasury
Dr. Charlotte Moore Sitterly
Department of Commerce
Dr. Sarah E. Stewart
Department of Health, Education
and Welfare
Dr. Penelope H. Thunberg
U. S. Tariff Cosine ission
Mrs. Ruth G. Van Cleve
Department of Interior
Mrs. Patricia G. van Delden
U. S. Information Agency
Mrs. Aryness Joy Wickens
Department of Labor
Dr. Rosalyn S. Yalow
Veterans Administration
November 28, 1966
WOMEN
Dr. Penelope H. Thuriberg, Chairman
Commissioner
U.S. Tariff Commission
Dr. Beatrice Aitchison
Director, Transportation Research
Pool Affil-
Miss Evelyn Harrison
Deputy Director, Bureau of Policies
and Standards
U. S. Civil Service Commission
Miss Irene Parsons
Assistant Administrator (or Personnel
Veforan:: Adminis tra tlon
Mrs. Ruth G. Van Cleve
Director, Office of Territories
Department of the Interior
Mrs. Aryness Joy Wickens
Consumer Program Advisor
Department of Labor
You will perhaps recall that last February
President Johnson named as members of a newly
created, study group on careers for women the 36
holders of the Federal Woman's Award. To sup-
plement the sparse information available from other
sources, this study group has found it necessary
to question: Federal agencies directly on certain
aspects of their recruiting, training, and promo-
tion practices in regard to professional women.
These are addressed in the enclosed questionnaire.
I, of course, am fully aware of the security
problems which this questionnaire will pose to
you and to General Carter. I am also sure, how-
ever, that with your interest they will be solvable.
Our concern lies in the relative position of pro-
fessional women, in the percentages, rather than
in the absolute numbers. Moreover, the totals
for all of CIA would yield misleading results, for
I feel sure that in CIA the relative importance of
jobs for-which females are not qualified is larger
than in the average executive agency.
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I would suggest, therefore, that you
respond to the questionnaire for only the
relevant parts of the agency, the relevant
part to be determined by you and not defined
for us. It could be, for example, CIA minus
the DD/P; it could be just the DD/I. In any
event the DD/P-type activities would serve
only to distort our totals and should not be
included in our results. To be most helpful,
your reply should be in my hands by
January 1, 1967.
I solicit your aid in this assignment,
for, after all, CIA got me into it !
With the warmest of regards and
best wishes--
Sincerely yours,
(Mrs.) Penelope H. Thunber
Chairman, FWA Study Gro
Honorable Richard Helms
Deputy Director
Central Intelligence Agency
Washington, D. C. Z0505
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NOTE: Most of the statistical information the President's
Study Group needs is being obtained from the recurring
reports agencies, make to the Civil Service Commission.
Instructions:
a. Submit one consolidated report for your entire
agency.
b. Use a separate sheet for each of the eight ques-
tionnaire items.
c. Enter the item number and the name of your agency
at the top of each sheet.
Recru:.tment of Women
1. List the different kinds of actions your agency has
taken during fiscal year 1966 designed especially to
recruit women for professional, technical, or
managerial jobs. Of these, which proved to be most
effective?
2. mist for fiscal year 1966 the occupations in which
women have been placed for the first time in your
agency.
3. State briefly any problems you may have encountered
:Ln recruiting women for professional, technical, or
managerial positions.
"Ira :ira: nc and Advancing Women Employees
~Y. List the different kinds of actions your agency has
taken during Fiscal year 1966 designed especially to
insure that women are provided opportunities for
training in professional, technical, or managerial
fields. Of these, which proved to be most effective?
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5. List the major formally organized management training
programs (other than those conducted or sponsored by
the Civil Service Commission) in which your agency's
employees in grade GS-12 and above and equivalent
participated during fiscal year 1966. Consider as
major those which are at least a week in length.
For each, show the number of women in GS-12 and above
and equivalent who participated.
6. State briefly any problems you may have encountered
in training and advancing women in your agency.
List the names, grades, and positions of women in
grades GS-16 through GS-18 and equivalent. List also
the names and positions of women in positions above the
GS-18 level.
Part-Time Employment of Women
8. a. Give the number of women employed'part-time in
your agency as of June 30, 1966.
b. Of these, show the number that are employed in
professional, technical, or managerial positions.
c. Has your agency made any special efforts to employ
women part-time in professional, technical, or
managerial jobs? If so, state briefly what was
done, the results achieved, and any problems
encountered.
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Monday, 27 December 1966
This letter was rewritten by the Ex-Dir. You
will note the change begins in the 2nd paragraph, 2nd
sentence.
brought it back to us after Pers.
retyped it and sent it straight up to them - -without re -routing
it through us.
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UNCLASSIFIED CONFIDENTIAL SECRET
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
OFFICIAL ROUTING SLIP L F
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NAME AND ADDRESS
DATE
INITIALS
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PREPARE REPLY
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ExDir signature.
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Please let me have a response to this letter from
Mrs. Thunberg by 16 December 1966. The suspense date
in the Office of the Executive Director-Comptroller is
28 December but, due to the holiday season, I believe we
should have more time for a review of the reply, which I
would like to send back to the Executive Director by
121 December. SIGNED R. L Dan??urman
SUSPENSE: Z8 December R. L. Bannerman
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FORM 10. 237 Use previous editions
DD/S Distribution:
Orig. - D/Pers, w/O Att (DD/S 66-6331)
1 - DD/S Chrono
1 - DD/S Subject, w/cy Art
DD/S 66 -6331: Ltr dtd 28 Nov 66 to Mr. Helms, Deputy Director, CIA,
fr Chairman, FWA Study Group, requesting completion of a question-
naire concerning Agency, recruiting, training, and promotion practices
in regard to professional women; w/att questionnaire.
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