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December 23, 2016

Trump Transition Looks into State Department Gender Equality Projects
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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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