By Brittany R. Ballenstedt
A coalition of federal employee groups met with lawmakers Monday to discuss how to increase the number of women and minorities in the upper ranks of government.
The meeting, led by Rep. Danny Davis, D-Ill., chairman of a House Oversight and Government Reform subcommittee on the federal workforce, brought members of six organizations together to discuss ideas for increasing diversity in the Senior Executive Service.
"There are large numbers of women in the workplace at the lower levels of opportunity, but as you get higher and higher, the numbers become fewer," Davis said last week at an event sponsored by advocacy group Federally Employed Women.
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