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Hi everyone,

A few updates:

• Our friends at the Office on Violence Against Women—an incredibly important office and an amazing place to work—is looking to hire a Deputy Director of Grants Development and Management (the deadline to apply is this Monday, Nov. 26). Keep an eye out for other OVW jobs that are open now and will be soon on USA Jobs.

• You should have received an email from JMD announcing that Meghan Tokash will take over as the Director of DOJ’s Sexual Misconduct Response Unit, which DOJ GEN played a role in creating. Meghan is a renowned expert in the field and has spent many years as a powerhouse prosecutor at DOJ and in the Army. It’s hard to imagine anyone who would be more qualified to assume this critical role.

• An op-ed—written by the heads of the planned “Department of Government Efficiency” (DOGE) and published Wednesday in the Wall Street Journal—lays out some of the plans the next administration has for federal employees. In the op-ed, the two authors:

  • Describe federal employees as “unelected, unappointed civil servants within the government agencies who view themselves as immune from firing thanks to civil-servant protections,” and characterize our role as "antidemocratic and antithetical to the Founders’ vision.”

  • Promise “mass head-count reductions across the federal bureaucracy,” and cite to a President’s authority to relocate “federal agencies out of the Washington area.”

  • State that “[e]mployees whose positions are eliminated deserve to be treated with respect, and DOGE’s goal is to help support their transition to the private sector.”

  •  Assert that a “President can use existing laws to give” federal employees “incentives for early retirement and to make voluntary severance payments to facilitate a graceful exist.”

  • Predict that “[r]equiring federal employees to come to the office five days a week would result in a wave of voluntary terminations that we welcome: If federal employees don’t want to show up, American taxpayers shouldn’t pay them for the Covid-era privilege of staying home.”

We'll be in touch again soon. In the meantime, please feel free to reach out to us at dojgenderequalitynetwork@gmail.com.

Best,

Stacey

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