U.S. Department of State, Gender Integration Efforts in the Field

Gender Integration Efforts in the Field

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton participates in a women's empowerment event in Kabul, Afghanistan, on July 20, 2010. [State Department photo/ Public Domain]

About the Author: E. Anthony Wayne serves as U.S. Ambassador to Mexico.

Last month, I participated in a conference with my fellow U.S. Ambassadors and other U.S. diplomats in Washington, D.C. At the opening event, on March 13, 2012, Secretary Clinton announced that she was releasing the first-ever policy guidance on gender integration for the State Department. This new guidance instructs our embassies and bureaus to implement specific steps to promote gender equality and advance the status of women and girls in all of our work in order to further both our national security and foreign policy goals. You can read more about the policy guidance… more »