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Trump Transition Looks into State Department Gender Equality Projects

HeadlineDec 23, 2016

Donald Trump’s transition team has ordered the State Department to detail which of the agency’s jobs and programs focus on gender equality and ending violence against women, in a move that has raised alarm among women’s rights advocates in the Foreign Service. The order came in a one-page memo with the subject heading “Gender-Related Staffing, Programming and Funding.” The memo comes a week after the Trump transition team asked the Department of Energy to name employees working on climate change.

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