The Foreign Service's `Feminine Incursion'

The Washington Post;  June 8, 1992 ;     391 words ...A number of us in the Foreign Service read with amusement the reprint of a 1942 Foreign Service Journal column, which The Post titled "Verbatim: Women in the Foreign Service" {Federal Page, May 26}. I fear, however, that many readers (including...

Tackling a White Male Bastion Series: America's Fading Foreign Service...

The Washington Post;  April 29, 1987 ;   John M. Goshko;   787 words ......the book on what it is like to be a Foreign Service wife: It is a way of life that she...fellowship, she married Randolph Reed, a Foreign Service officer at the U.S. Embassy in Rio...mid-1970s, Thayer was accepted into the Foreign Service herself and became half of what the...

OUTLOOK ON WASHINGTON: Choosing a Career? How about Foreign Service?

The Hispanic Outlook in Higher Education;  December 12, 1997 ;   A, Gustavo;   787 words ......WASHINGTON: Choosing a Career? How about Foreign Service? DESPITE SOME SETBACKS, SUCH AS THE...college, might want to consider is the Foreign Service of the United States. Today's Foreign Service consists of 4,000 officers and 3,000...

Post-Cold War Overhaul of Foreign Service Is Urged

The Washington Post;  August 7, 1992 ;   John M. Goshko;   787 words ...The U.S. Foreign Service corps must reinvent itself and...the conclusion of a report, "The Foreign Service in 2001," prepared by Georgetown...released today. It characterized the Foreign Service's slow reaction to change as...

2 Reports Urge Overhaul of Foreign Service; Weaknesses Are Found in...

The Washington Post;  May 31, 1989 ;   John M. Goshko;   787 words ......policy require an overhaul of the Foreign Service involving major changes in the way...solutions, the reports found that the Foreign Service is failing to recruit sufficient women...the revisions mandated in the 1980 Foreign Service Act have improved the efficiency of...

Online registration for the U.S. Department of State Foreign Service...

M2 Presswire;  February 15, 2005 ;     580 words ......registration for the U.S. Department of State Foreign Service written exam begins(C)1994-2005 M2 COMMUNICATIONS...April 23, 2005 U.S. Department of State Foreign Service Written Exam is open. Foreign Service candidates are now able register by...

Tradition Bows To the Demand for Management Skills Series: America's...

The Washington Post;  April 27, 1987 ;   John M. Goshko;   787 words ......almost 30 years. Younger members of the Foreign Service were aware of him only as a ghost...of anguished controversy within the Foreign Service. It is a debate about whether the...be the major standard for judging a Foreign Service officer's qualifications. In the early...

Cheap shots; Foreign Service undeserving of heavy criticism.(OPED)

The Washington Times;  November 20, 2007 ;     665 words ......SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON TIMES The U.S. Foreign Service has come in for a lot of gratuitous...that more than 2,000 members of the Foreign Service at State have willingly volunteered...middle of a combat zone. These 2,000 Foreign Service volunteers have staffed the U.S. embassies...

How Not to Fill a Foreign Service

The Washington Post;  December 20, 2006 ;     348 words ......sector who has worked with Foreign Service officers for more than a...Dec. 12 front- page story "Foreign Service Hiring Gets a Re-Exam" with...to have any impact on the Foreign Service's battle for talent, particularly...

Foreign Service welcomes Rice.(LETTERS)

The Washington Times;  November 20, 2004 ;     472 words ......WASHINGTON TIMES The Department of State's Foreign Service members take sharp exception to the...women of the Department of State's Foreign Service work directly for the secretary of...Would anyone, for example, accuse Foreign Service employee Ed Seitz, recently murdered...

Foreign Service recruits workers, particularly women, minorities

University Wire;  March 12, 2003 ;   Carolyn Polinsky;   787 words ......director of the State Department's Foreign Service, is calling upon women to enter a...day for Americans to sign up for the Foreign Service Exam and Davis would like to see at...hoping that the old boys network of foreign service officers will be broken and is excited...

The Foreign Service responds.(LETTERS)

The Washington Times;  February 4, 2006 ;     448 words ......Vallely's tirade against the Foreign Service ( Change at Foggy Bottom, Op-Ed...The fact is that the American Foreign Service Association and the vast majority of individual foreign-service officers strongly support Secretary...

REP. SMITH'S BILL TO CORRECT FLAWED PAY SYSTEM FOR FOREIGN SERVICE MEMBERS...

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  July 16, 2008 ;     386 words ......significant and worsening pay inequity in the Foreign Service compensation system. "The Foreign Service Overseas Pay Equity Act would establish...diplomacy. It is unacceptable that Foreign Service members transferring from Washington...

SEN. BOXER BACKS FOREIGN SERVICE OFFICERS' CALL FOR TRAINING AND SUPPORT...

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  November 6, 2007 ;     447 words ......instead address concerns raised by the Foreign Service about the need for additional support...an open meeting with members of the Foreign Service, there was a strong expression of...assignment that one senior member of the Foreign Service called, "a potential death sentence...

Foreign Service Life Disruptive for Families

Morning Edition (NPR);  July 26, 2006 ;   RENEE MONTAGNE;   787 words ......MONTAGNE Morning Edition (NPR) 07-26-2006 Foreign Service Life Disruptive for Families Host...of two reports on life in the U.S. foreign service. At first glance, life inside an Embassy...armed guards are reminders that the foreign service is not like living in America. Overseas...