Women's Climb Up the Federal Management Ranks, in One Chart

The federal government is trying to close the gender gap in its workforce and Tuesday, it trumpeted the gains women have made in management roles.

According to the Office of Personnel Management, far more women are likely to be working toward a management position than was the case one decade ago. The gender gap is growing smaller among younger women, OPM wrote in a report, with women aged 25-34 increasingly on management tracks. The report noted: 

In 2014, among supervisors and managers who were between the ages of 25 and 34, 43.5 percent were women. Of supervisors and managers between the ages of 55 and 64, 34.8 percent were women in 2014.

According to OPM, only 25.7 of supervisors and managers in 2005 who had worked fewer than 10 years in government were women. In 2014, that had increased to 29 percent. OPM broke out the managers and supervisors by age into the chart below.