Foreign Relations of the United States, 1977–1980, Volume XXVIII, Organization and Management of Foreign Policy

212. Memorandum From the Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Equal Employment Opportunity (Prince) to the Deputy Under Secretary of State for Management (Read)¹

Washington, August 2, 1978

SUBJECT

• Working Couples As of June 30, 1978

As promised in the July 25 meeting with WAO,² with PER’s help we have updated the statistics on Working Couples—copy attached.

We are working with an imperfect data base because, among other problems, some working couples do not wish to be identified as such (except, I’m told, when assignment time comes). Accepting the possible flaws in our data, the number of working couples where both parties are in a State Foreign Service pay plan has risen from 113 on October 31, 1976 (our last known count) to 128 as of June 30, 1978. We also show three FS plan employees now married to State Civil Service employees where we showed none twenty months ago. The number of working couples where a State FS employee is married to someone in another agency has risen from 5 to 15 in the same period.

I have asked PER to work on improving our data base for future use. If the unidentified 15 individuals are in fact members of working couples, our statistics will go up by 15.

Attachment

Table Prepared in the Office of Equal Employment Opportunity³

Washington, August 2, 1978

FS WORKING COUPLES 6/30/78

(where at least one party is of an FS Pay Plan)

Pay Plan Combinations	No. Couples
FSO/FSO	41
FSO/FSS	25
FSO/FSR	14
FSO/FSRU	1
FSO/GS	1
FSO/AID	2
FSO/ICA	9
FSR/FSR	2
FSR/FSRU	1
FSR/FSS	9
FSR/GS	1
FSR/AID	1
FSR/ICA	1
FSRU/FSRU	2
FSRU/FSS	12
FSRU/GS	1
FSRU/AID	1
FSS/FSS	21
FSS/AID	1
Totals: State/State	131
State/Other Agencies	15
	146

NOTE: Members of Nine (9) of above State/State couples use different names.

Unidentified individuals on June 30, 1978 machine run who apparently are half of a Working Couple:

	Female	Male	Total
FSO	2	4	6
FSR/U	1	4	5
FSS	1	3	4
	4	11	15

1. Source: National Archives, RG 59, Records of the Under Secretary for Management (M), 1978–1979, Box 2, Chron July 31–August 3, 1978. No classification marking.
2. No minutes of this meeting have been found.
3. No classification marking. Source: PER/MGT/OS/AR.